Sample Sentences for
persecution
(editor-reviewed)

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    "Now I'm feeling persecuted," said McClean.  (source)
    persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
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    The Russians persecuted heresy more cruelly than the Inquisition had done.  (source)
    persecuted = ongoing unfair treatment of others -- usually because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
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    He, whose persecutions had been the cause of my sin!  (source)
    persecutions = unfair treatment
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    And some of you have come from areas where your quest--quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.  (source)
    persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment
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    Yeah, he persecuted Christians, but otherwise he was a good ruler.†  (source)
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    They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did.†  (source)
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    Backslapping and cheers for all the cops, and then more cheers for me, as if these people hadn't been my persecutors a day before.†  (source)
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    The police are persecuting my family.†  (source)
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    'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.†  (source)
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    Retreating not the thousandth part of an inch; stabbing him in the eye with the unflinching poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching his right hand behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his persecutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steelkilt) would murder him.†  (source)
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    He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.†  (source)
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    Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.  (source)
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    If the country was better for the movement that persecuted me, I was still in favor of it.†  (source)
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