How to Use persecute in a Sentence

persecute

verb

• They were persecuted for their beliefs.
• The country's leaders relentlessly persecuted those who fought against the regime.
• The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted.
  — Julia Jester, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2018
• The Rohingyas must be the most despised and persecuted people in the world right now.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• Trump’s campaign has always had vengeance and retribution for those who persecute him, in his telling, as a central theme.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
• When the war ended, her family, along with tens of thousands of others, was stripped of most of their possessions and persecuted.
  — Oscar Corral, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
• Many a revolution has started off persecuting only the wicked, only to veer off track later.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Feb. 2018
• And, of course, the one-party state persecutes the Church and imprisons human-rights advocates.
  — Benedict Kiely, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• Reduce asylum fraud, in which applicants lie about being persecuted in their homeland.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 21 Dec. 2017
• People who never would have moved (from China) came to America because they were being persecuted.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 22 July 2024
• The White House said Pence will address the need to combat terrorism and help persecuted religious minorities.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• But, in the meantime, the people who were persecuting her in the first place might have killed her.
  — Annie Hylton, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• And then what would the persecuted do, having agreed to dispense with the guardrails?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 June 2019
• The Taliban have been known to persecute and kill Christians.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• Antisemitism should not be seen as free speech but [as] hate speech and must be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Only Trump would try to scare them with all the ways in which he himself is being persecuted.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• This is the stage when migrants state that they could be persecuted, tortured or even killed if they are sent back to their countries.
  — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 10 May 2024
• Turn the other cheek, love one’s enemies and pray for those who persecute you, even unto death.
  — Marilyn Yalom, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• When at our best, America has been refuge for the persecuted.
  — Monica Rhor, Houston Chronicle, 27 June 2018
• But today the habit of persecuting the Jews, brothers and sisters, is here reborn.
  — Jta Staff, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Though the show regrettably omits them, Käthe Kollwitz and Emil Nolde both stayed and, to varying degrees, were persecuted by the regime.
  — M.j. Andersen, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• Nero blamed Rome's Christians for this 64 A.D. disaster and used it as an excuse to persecute them.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
• The album’s stark cover, with the artist teary-eyed with his hand over his mouth, is his reaction to black people who have been persecuted and killed.
  — Gerrick D. Kennedy, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
• Despite the fact that over 6,000 have been arrested, and many have been persecuted, Hong Kong people still fight back.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2019
• They had been persecuted as Christians and fled to the United States as religious refugees.
  — Betsy Hammond, OregonLive.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The officials said the U.S. would not deport Venezuelans who prove they could be persecuted if returned to Venezuela.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and has claimed he is being persecuted by his opponents.
  — Sarah Ellison and Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Gang members in El Salvador had killed her husband, a sergeant in the military, and persecuted her sons.
  — Lomi Kriel, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2018
• People have not understood it and people have persecuted and hated and all the things.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
• There was a real need to establish a state in Israel, because Jews were being persecuted around the world and needed a place to live.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024