Example sentences for: pogrom

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

  • In the toy-store scene, for instance, Oskar says of a neighbor who also took part in the great national pogrom, though he wasn't in that particular store: "Meyn was not there," he says, "just as the ones who were there were not somewhere else"--a swipe at all the Germans who claimed not to have been around whenever Nazi crimes took place.

  • For example, the symbol “uh’ is shown in the key as representing schwa, yet throughout the book it is used to represent the vowel sound in English ball or raw (BUHbe `grandmother,' puhGRUHM `pogrom').

  • A pogrom was then unleashed, first in Java and next in Bali, with widespread killings of suspected Communists.

  • In "The Jewbird," a melancholy black bird named Schwartz lands on the balcony of a New York family and insists on being taken care of--a sad nuisance of a talking bird, fleeing God knows what tragedies (the bird says, "Gevalt , a pogrom!"

  • There are, of course, precedents for this sort of intact borrowing: pogrom, ukase, intelligentsia , and muzhik for example.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast