How to Use holocaust in a Sentence

holocaust

noun
  • There were fears of a nuclear holocaust.
  • The museum is devoted to the Holocaust.
  • The claim that atheists were the cause of these holocausts is false.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There was a massive holocaust carried out against our people.
    — Rhonda Levaldo, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
  • There are a few reasons why black people ain’t afraid of no nuclear holocaust.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The holocaust drama doesn’t show us the horrors and evils, but audiences hear it.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There is no other way to describe the catastrophe in Gaza than as a holocaust!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
  • Fallout forces him to choose between them and nuclear holocaust.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 23 May 2025
  • Many people who did not grow up with the threat of a nuclear holocaust now face a future of climate chaos.
    — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Vladimir Putin will not lose this war, short of a nuclear holocaust or threatening one.
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • With geopolitical upheaval across the globe, many of us live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • For a man who succumbs to that kind of despairing metaphor, the prospect of nuclear holocaust does not seem so appalling.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
  • Twinkies are said to be able to survive nuclear holocaust, but new science shows why cockroaches are just as hard to get rid of.
    — Kristine Phillips, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • In the holocaust of the South Bronx, lighting a match could seem like just hastening the inevitable.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The time travel is a necessary evil to help Skynet and a nuclear holocaust loom in the background.
    — Matt Patches, Esquire, 30 June 2015
  • But in the two or three minutes since his initial departure, the fiery holocaust had somehow become even more deadly.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Scientists say cockroaches are one of the few things that will survive a nuclear holocaust.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 June 2017
  • The October 7 massacre was the largest slaughter of Jews since the holocaust.
    — Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • It was said to be the largest murder of jewish people since the holocaust of WWII.
    — Simon Constable, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But if Petrov was right, a nuclear holocaust in the middle of the Cold War would be averted.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Bond is the man who saves the world from a nuclear holocaust by the turn of a screwdriver or pressing the right button on a control panel.
    — André Millard, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019
  • Some people think the content should always be biblical in nature and others expect the theme should always be about the holocaust.
    — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Davis says the founder was asked to drop holocaust from the museum name, or move the museum to a different city, but Cameron refused.
    — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The fact that nobody bothers to notice old women or the everyday holocaust of animal life turns out to be the novel’s crowning irony.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • It was followed by a secret and emotional ramble from Khrushchev about the spectre of nuclear holocaust.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2022
  • But the graphic visions of nuclear holocaust in those films conjured no more dread than the explosion of the Death Star.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Instead, the action jumps forward 200 years, to the societies that have risen in the wake of a nuclear holocaust.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But, to most of the Western world, the symbol is more closely associated with Nazism and the holocaust.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But Frank Lowy, the holocaust survivor who founded Westfield, will retire as chairman.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The teacher is the daughter of a holocaust survivor and has socialized with Muhammad off school grounds, according to the ex-husband.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021

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