Example sentences for: assimilation

How can you use “assimilation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 4) Assimilation : Second- and third-generation Sicilians, who now control the Mafia, place less emphasis on the omertà --the code of silence that precludes snitching.

  • Bob for Robert seems to have been created by phonological assimilation, the final b attracting an initial b , but Richard and Roger have no corresponding nicknames * Bick and * Bodgee .

  • Edgar Sr. deplores the assimilation of Jews as a "silent Holocaust," but he barely observes the Jewish religion, married three non-Jews, and named his son after himself, a major Jewish no-no.

  • And when Glazer asks why this is so, he finds not the obscurantism of black academics like Leonard Jeffries or Asa Hilliard, but the hard fact of black experience, and "the fundamental refusal of other Americans to accept blacks, despite their eagerness, as suitable candidates for assimilation."

  • To Abrams' concern that the (fewer than) 15-million Jews in the world might disappear through assimilation, Liu replies with the generosity and lack of worries of one backed by a billion people.


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