Example sentences for: pogroms

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

  • 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.

  • Ha'aretz said it understood why some Israelis felt they owed the Serbs a debt of gratitude for their tenacious opposition to the Nazis during World War II, but added: "A much-persecuted nation, well versed in pogroms, cannot stand on the side, watching an institutionalized process of exterminating civilians based on religion and ethnicity.

  • While evoking German outrage at such state-sponsored pogroms, the historians David Bankier and Kershaw do not conclude that the "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.

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


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