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Example sentences for: pogrom

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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').
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.
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!"
A pogrom was then unleashed, first in Java and next in Bali, with widespread killings of suspected Communists.
There are, of course, precedents for this sort of intact borrowing: pogrom, ukase, intelligentsia , and muzhik for example.