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
• But some acts — such as the persecution in China of relatives of a student in the U.S. — are not crimes here.
  — Haruka Sakaguchi, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2021
• The Frank family moved to the Netherlands to escape persecution in the mid-1930s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Thousands of Afghans who worked for the U.S. or face persecution from the Taliban have been left behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Their cheap talking points have led to chaos, persecution, and death.
  — Ben Sasse, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021
• The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• At the government’s persecution of the Uyghurs, for instance, the ancients might well be shocked.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2021
• He felt called by God to help the Christians suffering persecution in Iraq and throughout the world.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• These refugees are now at acute risk of persecution and violence.
  — Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The table of contents is a fusillade of facts that have emerged, in unbroken lines, from centuries of persecution.
  — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• 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
• Reasonable fear interviews typically assess whether a migrant can stay in the U.S. because of a risk of persecution or torture.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 May 2025
• When any group, especially one with a long history of persecution, is singled out, scapegoated or attacked, the foundation of liberty is at risk for everyone.
  — Larry Hogan, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2025