PERSECUTE in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for PERSECUTE, such as:

1. These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
2. Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.
3. It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
4. I should persecute anyone who would not show me respect.
5. Throughout history religious minorities have been persecuted.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSECUTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
persecute
 v.  pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; beset with cruelty or malignity; harass; annoy
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  These Gentiles, cruel and oppressive as they are, are in some sort dependent on the dispersed children of Zion, whom they despise and persecute.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  I should persecute anyone who would not show me respect.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VI
3  The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
4  The kings of the Norman race, and the independent nobles, who followed their example in all acts of tyranny, maintained against this devoted people a persecution of a more regular, calculated, and self-interested kind.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Thou hast spoken the Jew," said Rebecca, "as the persecution of such as thou art has made him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  With this controversy, and with the means he had adopted to counteract this clerical persecution, Cedric found the mind of his friend Athelstane so fully occupied, that it had no room for another idea.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  My life has been one incessant persecution from a husband whom I abhor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
8  He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was pursuing him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
9  Only," replied Treville, "it is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
10  Her friendship was a fatal sign which called down persecution.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
11  Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
13  I honor those good men and women for their noble daring, and applaud them for willingly subjecting themselves to bloody persecution, by openly avowing their participation in the escape of slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  So that if to this persecution a new language had been joined, it must soon have been found that everything was forgotten.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V.
15  These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence:
1  They persecute us with various delicate questions this morning.
2  It is worthwhile to note that both suffered persecution.
3  He had to show that he had a well-founded fear of persecution on religious or political grounds to qualify as a refugee.
4  It is the memory and threat of persecution that binds them together.
5  The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.
6  This persecution is to be an affirmation and encouragement to us that we are living a life different from the world.
7  Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
8  Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.
9  Throughout history religious minorities have been persecuted.