persecute

How To Use persecute In A Sentence

• What a paltering - what a childish paltering - unworthy of a schoolboy - is his solemn denial that the Pilgrims sailed for New England because they were persecuted.
• There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds. The Fiddler in the Subway
• The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.
• Some religious groups are persecuted in some countries
• We see a dictator using force to repress and persecute his opponents.
• When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.
• As no other person, She had the same feelings as Christ, unmurmuringly bearing the grief of a mother when She saw Her Son persecuted and suffering.
• That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.
• Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.
• The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.