Below you will find example sentences with "ethnic cleansing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ethnic Cleansing in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ethnic
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.9 words

Words in this phrase

ethnic cleansing

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • ethnic can mean: Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins. Frequent word
  • cleansing can mean: That cleanses. Less frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

accused of ethnic cleansing of polish 1× against civilians ethnic cleansing and punitive 1× and the ethnic cleansing and the 1× apartheid or ethnic cleansing 1× armageddon tribal ethnic cleansing political chaos 1× call it ethnic cleansing is because 1× from starvation ethnic cleansing and genocide 1× genocide ethnic cleansing and land 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and as far 1× but the reason 1× finally they engaged 1× furthermore they believed 1× genocide ethnic cleansing 1× in part those 1×

Common sentence endings:

and adamawa states 1× and genocidal campaigns 1× cleansing and genocide 1× cleansing of gaza 1× constitutes a problem 1× didn t object 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

gaza 4× genocide 4× states 3× world 2× carried 2× political 2× racial 2× groups 2× achieve 2× far 2× country 2× ukraine 2×

Related phrases

ethnic groups ethnic group ethnic minorities ethnic minority ethnic armenians ethnic conflict

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around ethnic:

ethnic groups 20× ethnic group 20× ethnic minorities 12× ethnic armenians 9× ethnic conflict 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

ethnic armenians ethereum using ethereum eth ethereum blockchain ethan hunt etf nasdaq

Just after it in the phrase index:

ethnic conflict ethnic group ethnic groups ethnic minorities ethnic minority europa league

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

ethnic groups ethnic group ethnic minorities ethnic minority ethnic armenians ethnic conflict

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ethnic cleansing" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as accused of ethnic cleansing of polish, against civilians ethnic cleansing and punitive, gaza, genocide and states stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with ethnic groups, ethnic group, ethnic minorities, ethnic groups, ethnic group and ethnic minorities, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ethnic cleansing

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Is this not ethnic cleansing or even genocide under international law? (11 words)

It is not a sinister disguise for apartheid or ethnic cleansing. (11 words)

It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

And with the backing of the US, the UK, and others, they will want the world to ratify the ethnic cleansing that they carried out in Gaza, just as the world ratified the ethnic cleansing that it carried out inside the Green line in 1948. (45 words)

Genocide, ethnic cleansing and land-grabbing are ongoing phenomena from Independence to date, mainly in Zuruland of Kebbi State, the Southern half of Kaduna State, and many Christian parts of Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Bauchi and Adamawa States. (38 words)

Furthermore, they believed that political boundaries should mirror these alleged racial and ethnic groups, thus justifying ethnic cleansing in order to achieve "racial purity" and also to achieve ethnic homogeneity in the nation-state. (34 words)

Question examples

Is this not ethnic cleansing or even genocide under international law? (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

And with the backing of the US, the UK, and others, they will want the world to ratify the ethnic cleansing that they carried out in Gaza, just as the world ratified the ethnic cleansing that it carried out inside the Green line in 1948.

Furthermore, they believed that political boundaries should mirror these alleged racial and ethnic groups, thus justifying ethnic cleansing in order to achieve "racial purity" and also to achieve ethnic homogeneity in the nation-state.

Finally they engaged in large scale ethnic cleansing, moving ethnic minorities far away, often with high loss of life.

Today "majimboism" is code for certain areas of the country to be reserved for specific ethnic groups, fuelling the kind of ethnic cleansing that has swept the country since the election.

And as far as the Russians who populate the Donbas are concerned, well, it looked like Ukraine had ethnic cleansing for them on the schedule, and the west didn’t object.

But if you continue to bash the Palestinians to kill them en masse, to continue with the massacres and the ethnic cleansing and the genocide, there’s no future for anybody.

But the reason I would call it ethnic cleansing is because in the aftermath of the war.

Genocide, ethnic cleansing and land-grabbing are ongoing phenomena from Independence to date, mainly in Zuruland of Kebbi State, the Southern half of Kaduna State, and many Christian parts of Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Bauchi and Adamawa States.

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In part, those fears were fueled by a report last week, published in the Israeli outlet Calcalist, of a from the intelligence ministry outlining just such an ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza.

In some conflicts, commanders have ordered and promoted the systematic rape of women as part of ethnic cleansing and genocidal campaigns.

Is this not ethnic cleansing or even genocide under international law?

It is not a sinister disguise for apartheid or ethnic cleansing.

It looks like the ethnic cleansing programme is being applied to Gaza anew.

Planet earth - 2023Threats, tensions and rumors of Armageddon, tribal ethnic cleansing, political chaos, border ambiguity and social identity crisis, micro-plastic pollution, paranoia pandemics, floods and droughts.

Shukhevych fought for Ukrainian independence, but also collaborated with the Nazis and is accused of ethnic cleansing of Polish people and Jews.

The ethnic cleansing was witnessed by representatives in Palestine from the United Nations, United States and Britain and reported in the media, and yet the major powers did nothing to stop this horrible crime.

These addressed statements must become the basis for the positions of various states and international structures on saving the people of Artsakh from starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The second task involves more than ethnic cleansing, because even the mere awareness of Palestinians, wherever they are, of their collective identity, constitutes a problem.

This is evidenced by the crimes against civilians, ethnic cleansing and punitive actions organised by neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

Transforming places of healing into morgues seems inadequate for Israel, as hospitals emerge as the last bastions hindering the execution of its “” for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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