Explore Pogrom through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like persecution. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pogrom meaning
- A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
- An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
Synonyms of Pogrom
Using Pogrom
- The main meaning on this page is: A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews. | An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
- Useful related words include: persecution.
- In the example corpus, pogrom often appears in combinations such as: the pogrom, pogrom in, pogrom against.
Context around Pogrom
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pogrom
- In this selection, "pogrom" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, amsterdam, muslim, nationwide, organizers, footage and unleashed stand out and add context to how "pogrom" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a horrific pogrom during the and and amsterdam pogrom footage on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pogrom" sits close to words such as aayog, absentees and accruing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pogrom
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
First, identify the location of the pogrom, I mean, the protest. (11 words)
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof gives his first comments on the Amsterdam Pogrom. (13 words)
During the pogrom, 5,000 or more Tamil civilians were brutally killed with several hundred made to disappear. (18 words)
The area, with its narrow, cobbled streets, is home to Vienna's oldest church, St Ruprecht's, and to the city's main synagogue, the Stadttempl, the only Jewish house of worship to survive the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938. (40 words)
Both grew up in India’s western state of Gujarat, where Modi became chief minister in 2001 just months before the torrid anti-Muslim pogrom — two months of violent, bloody retaliation in the region from Hindu mobs. (37 words)
One of the pogrom organizers, who posted pro-Hamas propaganda and Amsterdam pogrom footage on social media, wrote in a post, “Kill them, Allah will punish them with your hands, and He will disgrace them…. (35 words)
If Chabad-Lubavitch Movement is given a legal foothold in Arugam Bay, it may not be long before our own Muslims are accused of antisemitism and of igniting a pogrom! (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
One of the pogrom organizers, who posted pro-Hamas propaganda and Amsterdam pogrom footage on social media, wrote in a post, “Kill them, Allah will punish them with your hands, and He will disgrace them….
Antisemitism has surged in France since the pogrom unleashed by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7, with nearly 600 incidents reported and approaching 400 arrests made.
Both grew up in India’s western state of Gujarat, where Modi became chief minister in 2001 just months before the torrid anti-Muslim pogrom — two months of violent, bloody retaliation in the region from Hindu mobs.
Both the city’s synagogue and its cemetery were destroyed during the infamous nationwide pogrom orchestrated by the Nazi regime on Nov. 9-10, 1938.
During the pogrom, 5,000 or more Tamil civilians were brutally killed with several hundred made to disappear.
He objected, not to the pogrom against a peaceful Palestinian community, but because, in his view, the village should have been “wiped out” by the Israeli army, not settlers.
The area, with its narrow, cobbled streets, is home to Vienna's oldest church, St Ruprecht's, and to the city's main synagogue, the Stadttempl, the only Jewish house of worship to survive the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938.
At the same time, Ms. Halsema’s hesitance to use “pogrom” amplified the concern that such rhetoric is being deployed to forward an agenda against Muslims.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof gives his first comments on the Amsterdam Pogrom.
Eradiri, a former President of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, in a statement on Wednesday strongly condemned the incident describing it as a pogrom.
First, identify the location of the pogrom, I mean, the protest.
Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim and pro-Israel leader of the largest party in the Dutch government, called the riots a “pogrom” and a “Jewish hunt”.
If Chabad-Lubavitch Movement is given a legal foothold in Arugam Bay, it may not be long before our own Muslims are accused of antisemitism and of igniting a pogrom!
In June 1941, a horrific pogrom during the Shavuot holiday targeted Baghdad’s large Jewish community and resulted in hundreds of murders, rapes, and the mass destruction and looting of Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses.
In this way, even the spectacle of an anti-Jewish pogrom in Western Europe is being used as yet another excuse to bash Israelis and to portray its perpetrators as victims of racists and xenophobes.
Marble sculpture depicting a Greek mother currying her child on her back running away from a pogrom in Turkey.
More footage of the pogrom in Amsterdam of hundreds of Arab terror supporters assaulting Israeli football fans visiting the city.
Now, the local Jewish community is shaken from attacks that have denounced as antisemitic, with some calling them a “pogrom” or making direct comparisons to the Holocaust.
On the evening of October 7—the very day of the pogrom—33 student groups at Harvard issued a grotesque statement saying that Israel was entirely responsible” for the Hamas massacre.
She lost two grandparents herself in the pogrom, and she saw the play as a parable about how polarization and dehumanization of any group can lead to violence.
Common combinations with pogrom
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the pogrom 14×
- pogrom in 7×
- pogrom against 4×
- as pogrom 3×
- anti-jewish pogrom 3×
- amsterdam pogrom 2×
- anti-muslim pogrom 2×
- pogrom or 2×
- kristallnacht pogrom 2×
- pogrom and 2×