Explore Uyghurs through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Uyghurs meaning
plural of Uyghur
Using Uyghurs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Uyghur
- In the example corpus, uyghurs often appears in combinations such as: the uyghurs, uyghurs in, uyghurs are.
Context around Uyghurs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Uyghurs
- In this selection, "uyghurs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, muslim, hunan, turkic, frowns, says and issue stand out and add context to how "uyghurs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a million uyghurs in re and and against uyghurs from participating. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "uyghurs" sits close to words such as abacus, abner and acorns, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with uyghurs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You look at what China’s doing to the Uyghurs. (10 words)
Some Uyghurs from Xinjiang visit the Hunan Uyghurs out of curiosity or interest. (13 words)
That report cited possible “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang. (13 words)
And the inaugural China-Central Asia summit in May produced several trade agreements and stronger support for domestic policies like the Xinjiang crackdown on Uyghurs, says Niva Yau, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s global China hub. (39 words)
The foreign minister conceded that “Turkish-Chinese ties have suffered over Beijing being disturbed by our attitude on the Turkic Uyghurs issue,” including a Turkish refusal to extradite to China Uighurs resident in the country. (35 words)
Canberra has also condemned Beijing’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as well as the Hong Kong national security law and the curtailing of freedoms in the special administrative region. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
The government carefully monitors the activities of the Uyghurs, frowns on Islamic practice, and detains about a million Uyghurs in “re-education” camps.
Some Uyghurs from Xinjiang visit the Hunan Uyghurs out of curiosity or interest.
And the inaugural China-Central Asia summit in May produced several trade agreements and stronger support for domestic policies like the Xinjiang crackdown on Uyghurs, says Niva Yau, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s global China hub.
Biden was also expected to raise China’s human rights record, including its treatment of Muslim Uyghurs and crackdown on Hong Kong.
That report cited possible “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang.
The foreign minister conceded that “Turkish-Chinese ties have suffered over Beijing being disturbed by our attitude on the Turkic Uyghurs issue,” including a Turkish refusal to extradite to China Uighurs resident in the country.
You look at what China’s doing to the Uyghurs.
And related to the terrorism issue specifically, there are a number of foreign fighters in HTS’s ranks, mainly from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Uyghurs.
At the statue park of Chinese ethnicities in downtown Macau there are dozens of statues of China’s official ethnic groups, including Tibetans, Uyghurs and Uzbeks.
Beyond forced labor, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and others in Xinjiang targeted by state repression have received lengthy prison sentences.
Like the blood of Abel calling out from the ground, the blood of the Uyghurs calls out to us.
Meanwhile, the French government did not think it necessary to ban the participation of China, presently indulging in genocides – against Tibetans and against Uyghurs – from participating in Eurosatory.
The group refers to Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China the government relentlessly persecutes, as terrorists and defends their mass detention in 'reeducation' camps.
Uyghurs play the traditional instruments in front of the shops, an added attraction.
Uyghurs rallied against the Chinese government at the State Department in Washington in 2021.
And it is Anwar, along with a patchwork of other Uyghurs in exile, who are sharing this information with the outside world.
Canberra has also condemned Beijing’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as well as the Hong Kong national security law and the curtailing of freedoms in the special administrative region.
Demonstrations condemning Chinese atrocities on ethnic Uyghurs were held in Canadian city Vancouver.
In June this year, Washington slapped economic sanctions on Chinese Communist Party officials for their mistreatment of the Uyghurs Muslims.
Many Uyghurs living overseas say communication with their family back home was completely cut off when China intensified its crackdown in Xinjiang.
Common combinations with uyghurs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the uyghurs 14×
- uyghurs in 10×
- uyghurs are 8×
- uyghurs and 7×
- of uyghurs 7×
- million uyghurs 4×
- muslim uyghurs 4×
- uyghurs of 3×
- uyghurs from 2×
- hunan uyghurs 2×