How to Use ethnic cleansing in a Sentence

ethnic cleansing

noun

• What the Turks are doing now is ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• In Yei, ethnic cleansing turned the once-peaceful town into a kind of hell.
  — Justin Lynch, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
• Or the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, or the airstrikes on Gaza, or maybe because of all of it together.
  — Julia MacFarlane, ABC News, 21 May 2021
• This was ethnic cleansing of Jews, right after the Holocaust, in the middle of the 20th century.
  — Joseph Samuels, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• There is no place for genocide, for ethnic cleansing, for war crimes in the 21st century.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
• In fact, Shatz thinks this word—which does have a whiff of ethnic cleansing—is a mistranslation.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• What makes Spain unique is that here the aims of ethnic cleansing were fully realized.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The conflict forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in bouts of ethnic cleansing on both sides.
  — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Grant Peck, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2021
• The road toward ethnic cleansing in America begins and ends at the same place: The ballot box.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• The 2017 crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Julhas Alam, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
• Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Plus: Scenes of ethnic cleansing by pro-Turkish forces in Syria.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The students seem to be split on how best to stand against Spencer's message of white nationalism and ethnic cleansing.
  — Elena Hilton, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2017
• The United Nations chief has warned that ethnic cleansing could be taking place.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Khanna didn’t use the words genocide or ethnic cleansing as the other speakers did.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• The Kurds are worried that Turkey is intent on ethnic cleansing.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
• Thousands of Buddhist monks have held protests against the West for wanting to bring the military to justice for ethnic cleansing.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• Global rights groups and the UN called the campaign ethnic cleansing involving rapes, killings and torching of thousands of homes.
  — Julhas Alam, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• But in Myanmar, and even in Rakhine itself, there is stark denial that any ethnic cleansing is taking place.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The latter is a far-right party that campaigned in 2015 on ethnic cleansing and reviving the death penalty.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• Researchers have found that Facebook has been used to spread everything from hate speech to ethnic cleansing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Rights groups say ‘ethnic cleansing’ is happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The process often involved brute force or ethnic cleansing as land was seized and handed over to immigrants.
  — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
• This was essentially an act of ethnic cleansing, and Longfellow is alert to the tragedy of the Acadian exile.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the United Nations.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
• This means ethnic cleansing by removing the Kurds from their land and replacing them with some others.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• The flow of people has surged since 2017, when more than three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled an ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
• For reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in China!
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 20 Jan. 2022
• Without accountability for the Darfur genocide and the crimes of the present war, the problems that have led to this point will only recur, allowing violence and ethnic cleansing to occur again.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024