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Example sentences for: persecuted

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Instead, he consolidated the state by expanding eastward and accepting minority populations, including persecuted Jews from across Europe, into the predominantly Catholic nation.
b) Has been persecuted by enemies who won't be satisfied until he is destroyed.
He felt himself simultaneously to be the epicenter of the universe--"I am the left foot of God on earth"--and an abject, persecuted petitioner.
All have seen family members harassed, even persecuted to death."
Before ascending to the papacy in 1939, Eugenio Pacelli neutered German Catholic opposition to Nazism, campaigned to remove black troops from the Rhineland, and contemptuously declined to help persecuted Jews.