How to Use persecute in a Sentence

persecute

verb

• They were persecuted for their beliefs.
• The country's leaders relentlessly persecuted those who fought against the regime.
• But, in the meantime, the people who were persecuting her in the first place might have killed her.
  — Annie Hylton, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• And then what would the persecuted do, having agreed to dispense with the guardrails?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 June 2019
• The Taliban have been known to persecute and kill Christians.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• The Rohingyas must be the most despised and persecuted people in the world right now.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• He's persecuted for being a Catholic, sort of, which makes him a rebel.
  — Eric Thurm, Esquire, 11 July 2017
• Antisemitism should not be seen as free speech but [as] hate speech and must be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Only Trump would try to scare them with all the ways in which he himself is being persecuted.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• In the years since then, the Rohingya were persecuted, steadily lost their rights, and were the victims of violence.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2017
• This is the stage when migrants state that they could be persecuted, tortured or even killed if they are sent back to their countries.
  — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 10 May 2024
• Turn the other cheek, love one’s enemies and pray for those who persecute you, even unto death.
  — Marilyn Yalom, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• When at our best, America has been refuge for the persecuted.
  — Monica Rhor, Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2018
• But today the habit of persecuting the Jews, brothers and sisters, is here reborn.
  — Jta Staff, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2018
• Though the show regrettably omits them, Käthe Kollwitz and Emil Nolde both stayed and, to varying degrees, were persecuted by the regime.
  — M.j. Andersen, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• Nero blamed Rome's Christians for this 64 A.D. disaster and used it as an excuse to persecute them.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
• The album’s stark cover, with the artist teary-eyed with his hand over his mouth, is his reaction to black people who have been persecuted and killed.
  — Gerrick D. Kennedy, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
• Despite the fact that over 6,000 have been arrested, and many have been persecuted, Hong Kong people still fight back.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2019
• And, of course, the one-party state persecutes the Church and imprisons human-rights advocates.
  — Benedict Kiely, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• They had been persecuted as Christians and fled to the United States as religious refugees.
  — Betsy Hammond, OregonLive.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The officials said the U.S. would not deport Venezuelans who prove they could be persecuted if returned to Venezuela.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has claimed he is being persecuted by his opponents.
  — Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• He has been persecuted in his country’s legal system for a long time.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
• Gang members in El Salvador had killed her husband, a sergeant in the military, and persecuted her sons.
  — Lomi Kriel, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Now Lithuania has become one of the first countries to grant two of those persecuted refuge, while the United States denied their visa requests.
  — chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Saeed had been persecuted for his words.
  — Moni Basu, CNN, 16 Oct. 2017
• People have not understood it and people have persecuted and hated and all the things.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
• Trump the next day jumped on the moment, claiming Biden's comment proves he is being politically persecuted.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• They have been engaged in a public spat since 2017 over the late patriarch’s family home, and Lee Hsien Yang has accused Singapore’s government of persecuting him, his wife and his son.
  — Sylvia Hui and Eileen Ng, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024