How to Use persecution in a Sentence

persecution

noun

• Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the Nazi persecution.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• The plight of people who are displaced from their homes due to war and persecution is top of mind for many.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2023
• But the themes of persecution and the need for a Jewish homeland were deeply embedded in me.
  — Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
• The Frank family moved to the Netherlands to escape persecution in the mid-1930s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• But soon, the young women and their families were forced to flee Afghanistan or risk persecution by the Taliban.
  — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Prophet is portrayed as imperfect yet earnest, courageous in the face of persecution.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Jews in the South had also felt the sting of discrimination, persecution and attacks from the Ku Klux Klan.
  — al, 16 July 2022
• Refugees would have to be certified by the United States as fleeing some form of persecution.
  — The Editors, National Review, 3 May 2024
• In Vladimir Putin’s delirious telling, their persecution was normal and just.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
• Help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
• The law wouldn’t have any impact on those fleeing persecution.
  — Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Oct. 2024
• The persecution of Lai is part of the party’s merciless campaign to crush the remaining freedoms of the island city.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• Her parents, Ernest and Hilda fled Nazi persecution when she was born.
  — Madeleine Hordinski, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2022
• Most of the people going to the U.S.-Mexico border are fleeing persecution or poverty in their home countries.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 May 2023
• That in turn can buttress their case for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution in China.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• The Russian and Chechen governments have both maintained that the persecution never took place.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• As the song’s music video played in the background, showing the violent persecution of two gay men, a pride flag unfurled from the microphone stand.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2024
• Or, for that matter, with the idea that antisemitism would not exist if Jews did not provoke their own persecution.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023
• The accusations and persecution died down only in the latter half of the 18th century.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• What about the more overt persecution of comedy that Nesteroff traces?
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Tens of thousands of Hongkongers have left the city, some fleeing persecution and seeking asylum overseas.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 3 June 2022
• My father, who had hoped to end the cycle of persecution against our family, cried under the chuppah.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• The World Watch List assesses 50 countries where Christians face the most severe types of persecution.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Some of them are fleeing persecution, but some of them are understandably coming here to look for a better life.
  — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Still, experts worry about how the press would fare under six more years of persecution, and the impact this all has on Philippine democracy.
  — Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2022
• The work embraces a devotion to Catholicism, which, during the time of Shakespeare, was a sect subject to widespread persecution.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• The story begins in the 1830s, when patriarch David Sassoon, son of the chief treasurer to the pashas of Baghdad, was forced to flee due to the persecution of the city’s Jewish population.
  — James Reginato, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
• They were also driven by persecution of Sikhs in India, which then-Sen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Then and now, the particulars have never really matched people’s sense of persecution.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Feb 2025