How To Use witch-hunt In A Sentence
- Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
- The most famous question of the anti-communist witch-hunts in America was ‘Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?’
- But for many the policy evokes a chapter of the country's history they would wish to forget - the McCarthy-inspired witch-hunts of the 1950s, aimed at rooting out communist agitators.
- Today, across the border in Poland, a witch-hunt called "lustration" is on for anyone who allegedly "collaborated" in any way with the Communist regime. 'The Stasi on Our Minds': An Exchange
- Nowhere was this witch-hunt more thorough than within the bureaucratized trade union movement.
- However, he had outspoken left-wing political sympathies and at the time of the anti-Communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 1950s he was dogged by various investigating committees.
- The item accepted Hayward entirely on his own terms as the victim of a merciless witch-hunt.
- He has been a prominent victim of alleged witch-hunts against whistle-blowers in the NHS.
- Despite the witch-hunt many people did not swallow the lies.
- He has been a prominent victim of alleged witch-hunts against whistle-blowers in the NHS.