Example sentences for: kippur

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

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.

  • U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 didn't prevent the United States from using its nuclear deterrent to keep the Russians out of the Yom Kippur war later that year.

  • Also in 1973, Mossad was criticized for failing to predict the surprise Arab attack that began the Yom Kippur War.

  • If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.

  • Take a story he published this year in Forbes ASAP --the tale of how he, a young and lowly private in the Israeli army just before the Yom Kippur War, understood how unready the army was for a surprise attack and managed to convey his concerns to Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan.


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