Example sentences for: purges

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

  • When Robeson visited Moscow during the anti-Jewish purges, Stalin released the Yiddish poet Itzak Feffer from a labor camp and had him cleaned up to see Robeson.

  • Trouble is, it's been a nasty century (two world wars, Holocaust, Communist purges), so if you look for who did the most to cause it, you'll end up with a monster.

  • As a 12-year-old, that's where I learned about party purges, and about Khrushchev for that matter.

  • The evidence is a spate of recent purges of government leaders in the army, air force, and intelligence service.

  • Horrified by Stalin's purges, increasingly convinced that the Communists were literally the party of Satan and that "man without mysticism is a monster," in 1938 he broke with the party.


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