Example sentences for: pogroms

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

  • Note 7: Finkelstein notes that anti-Semitism in other countries was often worse; there was, in pre-Hitler Germany, "no equivalent of the riots that attended the Dreyfus Affair in France or the pogroms in Russia."

  • It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.

  • He should just say: "I meant to piss you off, just don't start any pogroms or shoot me."

  • According to Shatz, "Finkelstein deduces from some Germans' disgust at the destruction of Jewish lives and property during Nazi-sponsored pogroms such as Kristallnacht that 'Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities.

  • This is on account of Christian behavior over the past 2,000 years, by which I mean blood libels and pogroms and inquisitions, those sorts of things.


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