How to Use femicide in a Sentence

femicide

noun
  • Italy’s battle with femicide goes back decades.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • But despite decades of campaigning, femicide is still on the rise.
    — Julie Bourdin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
  • At the same time, rates of domestic violence and femicide have risen.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • This, in turn, leads to a reduction in intimate femicide.
    — Walter S. Dekeseredy, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Even though there are laws in place to prevent femicide, researchers have noted a lack of enforcement.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Italy’s rate of femicide is the fifth lowest in the European Union.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Campion and Moore’s script notes how our culture has inured us to stories of femicide.
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2021
  • An arrest warrant has been issued for the crime of femicide, prosecutors said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Today, the problem of femicide in Mexico — and whether Lopez’s death will help change that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The emergency of femicide in Australia could not be more apparent.
    — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • The move was a blow to the country’s women’s rights movement, which says domestic violence and femicide are on the rise.
    — Time, 22 Mar. 2021
  • For a couple of years, the statistics that are coming out show more violence, more rapes, more murders, femicides.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Malta is as perfectly safe–idyllic–as any place can be, but that doesn’t mean its exempt from crime, violence, and femicide.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The film addresses the topic of femicide in the name of a misguided sense of family honor.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • Her death sparked city-wide protests against femicide and violence, ranging from rape to kidnapping, toward women.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 July 2020
  • For Findikoglu, reading more about these alarming rates of femicide in her home country led to some intense soul-searching.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2020
  • During Covid, there was a femicide happening in South Africa that nobody talked about.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The purple silhouette of a girl with her fist raised was meant to draw attention to victims of femicides and abuse and to serve as a meeting point for protests.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In Mexico, at least 939 women were victims of femicide last year.
    — refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Per Statista, South Africa has one of the highest rates of femicide and gender-based violence in the world.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Ramos Gómez was born in Juárez, Mexico, and was writing about femicide as young as 13.
    — Tyler Hicks, Dallas News, 22 June 2020
  • Despite the ever-growing awareness of the issue, femicide continues to be on the increase.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Last year, femicides hit record levels, with some experts pointing to the rising number of guns in Brazilian homes as a key factor.
    — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
  • But even as homicides dropped, the number of murders classified as femicides in the capital climbed by more than a third over the same period.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • Tima and Guerrier both said that often the assumption in cases of abuse and femicide is that the woman provoked the man.
    — Miami Herald, 16 May 2026
  • Six more cases are being examined as potential femicides.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • At least 15 protests were planned across the country, with organizers calling for the defense of women’s lives and an end to femicide.
    — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Women in Mexico are angry, and rightly so, given the tide of femicide sweeping the country.
    — Denise Dresser, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Despite the ever-growing awareness of the issue, femicide continues to be omnipresent.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Their calls for justice persist despite a decade-old law that criminalized femicide, a crime now punishable by up to 50 years in prison.
    — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026

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