How to Use persecution in a Sentence

persecution

noun
  • Their cheap talking points have led to chaos, persecution, and death.
    — Ben Sasse, National Review, 16 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • These refugees are now at acute risk of persecution and violence.
    — Tazreena Sajjad, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
  • So in a real sense I have been battered by the storms of persecution.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • All of the asylum seekers at the hotel face a high risk of persecution back home, human rights experts say.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • But the themes of persecution and the need for a Jewish homeland were deeply embedded in me.
    — Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
  • Under the current regime in Iran, Baháʼís have long faced persecution.
    — Adam Duxter, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the refugees have fled from persecution in neighboring Myanmar.
    — Rebecca Wrigh, CNN, 22 Mar. 2021
  • What about the more overt persecution of comedy that Nesteroff traces?
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The family should move out of Paris to a place where Daniel would not have to worry about persecution.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The persecution of Christians in Africa needs to be seen in its global context.
    — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • In Vladimir Putin’s delirious telling, their persecution was normal and just.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • Some of them are fleeing persecution, but some of them are understandably coming here to look for a better life.
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The Prophet is portrayed as imperfect yet earnest, courageous in the face of persecution.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • My father, who had hoped to end the cycle of persecution against our family, cried under the chuppah.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the Nazi persecution.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 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
  • 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
  • This pattern of religious persecution is not new.
    — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Her parents, Ernest and Hilda fled Nazi persecution when she was born.
    — Madeleine Hordinski, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2022
  • America has always been a refuge for those fleeing persecution.
    — Arlene Marcus, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • And so, frankly, is this city, built on the idea of freedom and the offer of sanctuary to those fleeing persecution elsewhere.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Those who still come — fleeing violence or persecution — could still apply for asylum as the law intends.
    — Federico Peña, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Refugees would have to be certified by the United States as fleeing some form of persecution.
    — The Editors, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • That persecution has been going on for centuries, Mokhtar said, referring to it as a genocide.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 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

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