How to Use femicide in a Sentence

femicide

noun

• Italy’s rate of femicide is the fifth lowest in the European Union.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
• About 20% of South African women have been abused by a partner, and the country has some of the highest rates of rape and femicide in the world.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024
• Today, the problem of femicide in Mexico — and whether Lopez’s death will help change that.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• In Nicaragua, he would be charged with committing a crime that doesn't even exist here: femicide.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• Ramos Gómez was born in Juárez, Mexico, and was writing about femicide as young as 13.
  — Tyler Hicks, Dallas News, 22 June 2020
• On April 22, more than a thousand of us did what the government failed to do: unite to call Escobar’s death a femicide.
  — Mariana Limón Rugerio, refinery29.com, 3 May 2022
• At the same time, rates of domestic violence and femicide have risen.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
• Then, came the words Haley's family had been waiting for: guilty of femicide.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2021
• The move was a blow to the country’s women’s rights movement, which says domestic violence and femicide are on the rise.
  — Time, 22 Mar. 2021
• The purple silhouette of a girl with her fist raised was meant to draw attention to victims of femicides and abuse and to serve as a meeting point for protests.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• During Covid, there was a femicide happening in South Africa that nobody talked about.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2023
• The chart-topping star added that it was not inspired by the tragic case of Andrea Ruiz, who was a victim of femicide in Puerto Rico.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 1 July 2022
• Campion and Moore’s script notes how our culture has inured us to stories of femicide.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2021
• In Mexico, at least 939 women were victims of femicide last year.
  — refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• Last year, femicides hit record levels, with some experts pointing to the rising number of guns in Brazilian homes as a key factor.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
• President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was quick to condemn the event as murder, and the officers were promptly jailed and charged with femicide.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2021
• For Findikoglu, reading more about these alarming rates of femicide in her home country led to some intense soul-searching.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2020
• The story centers on Mutlu’s rise as an activist and TikTok star following the femicide of both her sister and a close neighbor.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Nov. 2022
• With so many cases of femicide, most get little attention.
  — Fabiola Sánchez and Fernanda Pesce, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Women in Mexico are angry, and rightly so, given the tide of femicide sweeping the country.
  — Denise Dresser, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2022
• An arrest warrant has been issued for the crime of femicide, prosecutors said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2022
• Bahgat's killing marked the second such campus femicide to occur in Egypt within the past two months, prompting outcry on social media.
  — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The man arrested for Velázquez’s murder, a mototaxi driver, was sentenced in January to 93 years in prison for femicide.
  — Fabiola Sánchez and Fernanda Pesce, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The writers with whom Melchor shares an interest in femicide—Ibargüengoitia, Bolaño, Elizondo—may have been drawn in by the politics of the subject.
  — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
• Her death sparked city-wide protests against femicide and violence, ranging from rape to kidnapping, toward women.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 July 2020
• The $400-million package of new measures came on top of relatively robust laws against femicide, the term France uses for conjugal killing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Red Shoes art movement started in 2009 when Chauvet created her installation speaking out against femicide and the abuse of women.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• Díaz was the ninth apparent femicide during an 11-day spate of killings in and around Mexico City from late October to early November.
  — Fabiola Sánchez and Fernanda Pesce, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Women in Mexico and Central America on the whole suffer alarming rates of femicide.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• The Virgin’s image is so embedded in Mexican culture and history that it has been used in everything from the 1810 revolt against the Spanish to the modern fight against femicide.
  — Nina Strochlic, History & Culture, 22 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024