How to Use pogrom in a Sentence

pogrom

noun

• That evening, 64 people came to the hospital seeking refuge from the pogrom and the Gestapo.
  — Evelyn Frick, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• It was first referred to as a pogrom, the name used for attacks on Russian Jews during the time of the czars.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• In the 1890s his family had fled the Jewish pogroms in Lithuania.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• The photograph was taken in 1941, during the Lviv pogroms in Ukraine.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• George and Ira Gershwin’s parents also fled the pogroms.
  — John Strausbaugh, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• What’s hanging over that threat is a threat of an impending pogrom.
  — Charlie H. Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• Any historian will tell you: after the plague, the pogrom.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2020
• In Fiddler on the Roof, the town of Anatevka struggles to hold on to its traditions as the world changes around it, and the threat of pogroms looms.
  — Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
• This new wave of anti-Semitism could, and in fact did, produce a kind of American pogrom.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• In the Thirties, the legionaries, as they were known, had launched pogroms that claimed hundreds of Jewish lives.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Known as the Allende Massacre after one of the towns where much of the killing took place, the days-long pogrom is believed to have left hundreds dead.
  — Jason Buch, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
• These are the stories that become cover for pogrom and genocide.
  — Robin Sloan, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
• The brooch was hidden during a Jewish pogrom stirred by the Black Death, regularly blamed on the Jews.
  — WSJ, 4 May 2018
• In Europe, where over 50 million died, a search for scapegoats led to widespread pogroms against Jews.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• Protests, pogroms against Muslims, and then a pandemic.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Anjum gets caught in pogroms against Muslims in a way that nearly destroys her.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2017
• Two days after the pogrom, a reporter visited the Tongs’ ransacked store.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• The photos were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fuerth.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
• In the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Nazis set the building ablaze, but the local fire department put out the flames.
  — Toby Axelrod, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• His mother had seen her mother slain in a Cossack pogrom in a Jewish village in Ukraine.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• His father, born in Minsk, was brought to America as a child to escape pogroms.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• In addition, there were anti-Semitic pogroms during and after the war.
  — Tara John, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• In 1905, a savage Russian pogrom took hundreds of Jewish lives.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• The group then began a pogrom, killing some 3,000 men and boys and kidnapping and enslaving thousands of women and girls.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The pogroms by the Myanmar military were aided by mobs of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• But because Jews in Russia did not have rights to be taken away from them, those pogroms didn’t fit the meaning of antisemitism.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• For example, look at the very understandable description of the events of the massacre of the 7th of October as a pogrom.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• There are Israeli soldiers nearby who make no attempt to interfere and who leave the area while the pogrom is going on.
  — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
• But school and birthday parties and friendships and fallings-out loomed just as large, if not larger, in our world than dictators and pogroms.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024