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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    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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    Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.  (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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    He, whose persecutions had been the cause of my sin!  (source)
    persecutions = unfair treatment
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    When rational motives are conspicuous (for example, when a man kills for personal gain) or when the irrational motives are accompanied by delusions or hallucinations (for example, a paranoid patient who kills his fantasied persecutor), the situation presents little problem to the psychiatrist.†  (source)
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    He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.†  (source)
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    Once the persecution began, his work slowly dried up.†  (source)
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    Spoken by a member of a despised and persecuted race.†  (source)
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