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
• But despite decades of campaigning, femicide is still on the rise.
  — Julie Bourdin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 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
• The emergency of femicide in Australia could not be more apparent.
  — Em Readman, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
• 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
• Despite the ever-growing awareness of the issue, femicide continues to be on the increase.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But even as homicides dropped, the number of murders classified as femicides in the capital climbed by more than a third over the same period.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024