How to Use gulag in a Sentence

gulag

noun

• The Uyghurs in the gulag, among others, could attest to this.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
• For all his silly tweets, Trump hasn’t opened any gulags (yet).
  — Alexander Nazaryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2017
• Mendelevitch was captured and spent 11 years in a gulag.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Mistakes like this promise a one-way ticket to the gulag or worse.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• Stalin was a man of gulags and firing squads, a poster villain for the dangers posed by despots.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Nadym, a former gulag camp, is now a booming town of gas workers.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• More than a million Uighur men and women have been thrown into this gulag.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• Or look at the man who, quite literally, wrote the book on the Soviet gulag.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
• Here, the gulag is more than merely a memory, and a residual fear hangs in the air even today.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
• Which came from legitimate business, so to speak, and which from a gulag camp?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• The story unfolds within a grand but fading hotel; not quite Eloise at the Plaza, but far from Ivan Denisovich in the gulag.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2019
• Somebody might end up in a gulag that way, and Matveev wasn’t interested.
  — Keith Gave, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
• It was founded in the 1940s as a gulag camp for mining tin and uranium, where the prisoners died in great numbers.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• He’s detained by the authorities, tortured, and sent to a gulag.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• No one is sentencing great athletes to the football gulag.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• And Trump showered a surfeit of praise on the gulag operator.
  — Andrew Malcolm, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2018
• Does handing over two or three thousand dollars help fund the weapons program, gulag fence-mending or the purchase of medicine?
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 6 June 2018
• There is a lot to protest in China: including the imprisonment of more than 1 million Uyghurs in a gulag.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• This at a time when the penalty for such an offense could be death by execution, or almost certain death in the gulag.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 July 2019
• Hopper is far from dead, however, and is being held at an icy gulag in Russia.
  — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 15 May 2022
• But in fact this gulag exists right here in lower Manhattan.
  — Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2019
• This former professor, a survivor of the Holocaust and gulags, is one of the collection’s highlights.
  — Leah Mirakhor, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• His grandfather, a peasant, was declared an enemy of the working class and sent to one of this region's many gulag prison camps.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• The North Korean gulags are work gulags; the prisoners are forced to work and live in what look like North Korean villages.
  — Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2014
• For his activism, he was sent to a prison camp on the Coco Islands, a tropical gulag archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• The people who have those markers, who are seen as unsafe for a long time were being shipped off to a gulag of re-education centers.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Vladimir Putin's Russia has settled into one-man rule, minus perhaps the worst of the Soviet gulag state.
  — John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• Today tens of thousands of North Koreans are believed to languish in gulags and the state allows no dissent.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• The people who are stuck in an old way of thinking, in 20th century frameworks, in gulag thinking, are missing what is going on.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020
• Ukrainians such as Vasyl Semenovych Stus, a poet who died in a Soviet gulag while on a hunger strike in 1985.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 23 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024