PERSECUTION in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for PERSECUTION, such as:
1. These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
2. Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.
3. It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
4. Throughout history religious minorities have been persecuted.
5. Her friendship was a fatal sign which called down persecution.
2. Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.
3. It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
4. Throughout history religious minorities have been persecuted.
5. Her friendship was a fatal sign which called down persecution.
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Meanings and Examples of PERSECUTION
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persecution
n. the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1 The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2 The kings of the Norman race, and the independent nobles, who followed their example in all acts of tyranny, maintained against this devoted people a persecution of a more regular, calculated, and self-interested kind.
3 Thou hast spoken the Jew," said Rebecca, "as the persecution of such as thou art has made him.
4 With this controversy, and with the means he had adopted to counteract this clerical persecution, Cedric found the mind of his friend Athelstane so fully occupied, that it had no room for another idea.
5 My life has been one incessant persecution from a husband whom I abhor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
6 He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was pursuing him.
7 Only," replied Treville, "it is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution.
8 Her friendship was a fatal sign which called down persecution.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
9 Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.
10 That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos.
11 I honor those good men and women for their noble daring, and applaud them for willingly subjecting themselves to bloody persecution, by openly avowing their participation in the escape of slaves.
12 So that if to this persecution a new language had been joined, it must soon have been found that everything was forgotten.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V.
13 These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14 She then went on to describe the persecutions exercised by the cardinal upon his enemies.
15 It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
Example Sentence:
1 It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
2 He had to show that he had a well-founded fear of persecution on religious or political grounds to qualify as a refugee.
3 It is the memory and threat of persecution that binds them together.
4 The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.
5 This persecution is to be an affirmation and encouragement to us that we are living a life different from the world.
6 Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
7 Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.
8 Throughout history religious minorities have been persecuted.
9 They persecute us with various delicate questions this morning.