Example sentences for: genocide

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

  • In this case, the genocide is pre-emptive--clones are so scary that we must eliminate them before they exist with a ban on their creation.

  • Language is important and, although the Serbian state pursued a policy of vilification, expulsion and murder against the ethnic Albanians, it did not amount to genocide.

  • Russian newspapers love to talk about the "genocide" against Russian-speakers in the Baltic states, for example, while European intellectuals like to accuse Hollywood of committing "cultural genocide."

  • "Many people," David Boldt, then-editor of the Inquirer's editorial page, noted in a subsequent commentary, "saw the editorial as part of an ongoing white conspiracy to carry out genocide of blacks in America."

  • But that makes it sound as if most of us are entirely civil human beings, while occasionally--in some remote part of the world--a "genocide" switch gets flicked, and slaughter happens.


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