How to Use Jew in a Sentence
Jew
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Tokin’ Jew has felt the fallout firsthand.
—Iris Dorbian, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-11-10
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Everybody who wasn’t a young mother or an elderly Jew was up for grabs.
—Mark Seliger, Vulture, 2025-04-07
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The neurotic Jew is a real thing, and these works explore it with nuance and depth.
—Rachel Israel, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
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But would the country accept the first Jew and the first woman on a ticket in the same person?
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2024-09-23
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Even more so when Sandy Koufax, a fellow Jew, was pitching.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-20
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Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.
—Michael S. Roth, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
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David arrived nine months later, a 16-year-old Polish Jew who loved to sing.
—Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-01-22
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Theodor Kramer was a poet in Vienna in the thirties, a Jew.
—Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 2024-09-29
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The media is fanning the flames of an unprecedented surge in Jew hatred.
—Doug Friednash, The Denver Post, 2024-10-17
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Filler-Corn had been the first woman and first Jew to serve as speaker of the Virginia House.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 2023-11-11
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Over the past year, the word has become an alternative for Jew in order to mask underlying hate.
—Marc Levine, The Mercury News, 2024-10-05
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Hahn, working in Nazi Germany, wasn't supposed to be exchanging ideas with a Jew.
—Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 2023-09-14
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Some of the reforms backer want to create a stricter definition of what kind of Jew can become a citizen.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2023-05-02
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The Soviet Union was a terrible place to be a Jew; god, was the fruit delicious.
—Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 2023-05-10
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The story of the Wandering Jew lurks and floats through Bloom’s thoughts: diaspora.
—Benjamin Hale june 23, Literary Hub, 2025-06-23
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King David instituted that every Jew should say 100 blessings in a single day.
—Diane Owens Prettyman, Austin American-Statesman, 2024-11-13
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Louis lost his job when the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in 1935; as a Jew he was barred from teaching in a state school.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2023-11-30
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The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
—Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2024-01-02
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Shapiro, a Democrat and a Jew, had celebrated Passover Seder the day before with family and friends.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-04-17
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In 2004, when a search on the word Jew produced an anti-Semitic site as the first result, Google declined to change anything.
—Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 2024-12-17
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Solomon Bush earned the rank of lieutenant colonel in the American army; at the time, no Jew in Europe could serve as a military officer.
—Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 2024-10-18
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The current members are also all religious, with six Catholics, two Protestants and one Jew making up the court, according to Gallup.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 2025-06-26
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In 1984, the last prayer service took place, and the sole remaining Jew — a lawyer named Radicanu — died in 2009.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
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An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 2023-11-22
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Andor soon bonds with Klára, but later becomes infatuated with his late father, a ticket salesman with connections to the entertainment industry (escapism is a recurring motif) and an observant Jew, whose faith becomes of great interest to the boy.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
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Mazower notes that, as a politics of Jew hatred, anti-Semitism’s power in early-twentieth-century Europe had something to do with the ways in which modern nationalism was able to borrow a legacy of prejudice from centuries of Christian culture.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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As an American Jew, recalling the pride and excitement that came with the nomination of my friend and mentor to the vice presidency makes Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary all the more unsettling.
—Nathan Diament, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Daedone’s co-defendant, Rachel Cherwitz, a former Orthodox Jew from Texas, joined OneTaste in 2007, and has spoken often of having arrived looking for help after a doctor diagnosed her as anorgasmic.
—Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
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Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy at B’nai Brith Canada, noted that just a week earlier a synagogue in Victoria, British Columbia, had been defaced with antisemitic threats, underscoring that Jew-hatred has become a nationwide problem.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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