Example Sentences

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“If you have this paranoid streak, this vigilance, this sense that others have been persecuting you for years, there’s an accumulation of maltreatment and an intense urge to stop that persecution,” Meloy said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2017

“If you have this paranoid streak, this vigilance, this sense that others have been persecuting you for years, there’s an accumulation of maltreatment and an intense urge to stop that persecution,” Dr. Meloy said.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2017

And he is the man you have been persecuting ever since he came to this place.

From The Unknown Wrestler by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)

It seems that he had caused the apprehension and execution of a Confederate spy, and ever since then, he states, the relatives and friends of this man have been persecuting him.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

And the question stole into his mind, "Could Mrs. Dormer-Smith have been persecuting May on his account?"

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor