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Example sentences for: persecuted

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b) Has been persecuted by enemies who won't be satisfied until he is destroyed.
All have seen family members harassed, even persecuted to death."
"No one in Yeltsin's time has ever been persecuted for making anti-Russian statements," it said.
The thinness of the evidence against him has led some to suggest that Lee, who was born in Taiwan, is being persecuted because of his ethnic heritage.
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.