Example Sentences

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They are Yazidis who allegedly fled northern Syria after the advance of Islamic State, which has persecuted the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2015

Yet he is not properly a Nazi scapegoat because every kind of German Government has persecuted him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sinatra pEre, who has never written his memoirs and has persecuted many would-be Boswells, has been secretly working on the book with his daughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

A part of my nature has persecuted me.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe

He has persecuted me with importunities to attend and make a speech for him; and my father has joined in the request.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George