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Yazidi is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Yazidi in a sentence

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Yazidi | Yazidis

Yazidi meaning

member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism

Using Yazidi

  • The main meaning on this page is: member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism
  • In the example corpus, yazidi often appears in combinations such as: the yazidi, yazidi women, of yazidi.

Context around Yazidi

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

kill 1× old 1× freed 1×

Often after:

slave 3× woman 3× community 2× women 2× minority 2× men 1× survivors 1× religious 1× mass 1× refugees 1×

Sentence patterns with Yazidi

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a second yazidi woman but 1× a yazidi who lived 1× against the yazidi a first 1× against the yazidi religious minority 1× enslaving a yazidi woman 1× for a yazidi refugee camp 1× freed yazidi women spoke 1× in the yazidi community 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a german woman 1× a yazidi who 1× and last week 1× both healthcare providers 1× but the extremists 1× freed yazidi women 1×

Common sentence endings:

the yazidi community 2× 2019 in kocho 1× a munich court 1× a yazidi woman 1× activist nadia murad 1× committed by is 1×

Words around Yazidi

Just before it in the word index:

yazid 24 yazeed 13 yazdi 7 yazdanshahr 2 yazdanpanah 2 yazdani 4

Just after it in the word index:

yazidis 22 yazigi 4 yazirians 2 yazmin 11 yazoo 20 yazz 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaf 44 aalen 44 abrogated 44 absurdist 44 accuweather 44 acuna 44

Corpus analysis for Yazidi

  • In this selection, "yazidi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, kill, old, freed, slave, woman and community stand out and add context to how "yazidi" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a second yazidi woman but and a yazidi who lived. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "yazidi" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with yazidi

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Where’s a Yazidi slave when you need one? (9 words)

Yazidi refugees from Iraq are among those fleeing religious persecution. (10 words)

Freed Yazidi women spoke of cruelties inflicted by female members of the group. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

A German woman who joined the Islamic State and chained up a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl, leaving her to die of thirst in the baking sun, has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Munich court. (40 words)

In November 2021, a German court convicted an Iraqi jihadist of genocide against the Yazidi, a first in the world that Murad hailed as a victory in the fight for recognition of the abuses committed by IS. (37 words)

Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year after IS began what the UN says was a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi religious minority. (36 words)

Question examples

Where’s a Yazidi slave when you need one? (9 words)

Example sentences (20)

A Yazidi who lived in Iraq and was an interpreter for the U.S. Army in Iraq co-founded Yazda, a U.S. nongovernmental organization that supports the Yazidi community.

But the extremists went on to kill Yazidi men and enslave thousands of Yazidi women, buying and selling them at markets.

A German woman who joined the Islamic State and chained up a five-year-old Yazidi slave girl, leaving her to die of thirst in the baking sun, has been handed a 14-year prison sentence by a Munich court.

And last week, a German woman went on trial in the southwestern city of Koblenz accused of aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide with IS in Syria by "enslaving" a Yazidi woman.

In November 2021, a German court convicted an Iraqi jihadist of genocide against the Yazidi, a first in the world that Murad hailed as a victory in the fight for recognition of the abuses committed by IS.

Michael Blume, the German official who oversaw the transfer of Yazidi survivors to Germany, on July 17, 2023 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year after IS began what the UN says was a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi religious minority.

Prosecutors had charged her with enslaving a second Yazidi woman but the judges found that victim’s statements to be too unreliable for a conviction.

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Two stories—that of the Yazidi slave girl rescued from Gaza and the death of Yahya Sinwar—illustrate that difference.

According to the Guardian, al-Quraishi played a pivotal role in the genocide and enslavement of the Yazidi minority in Iraq.

The exhumation of the Yazidi mass graves began on March 15, 2019, in Kocho.

Yazidi refugees from Iraq are among those fleeing religious persecution.

Both healthcare providers and patients say there isn’t enough help to meet the massive mental health needs in the Yazidi community.

Freed Yazidi women spoke of cruelties inflicted by female members of the group.

Last year, the award - consisting of a gold medal, a diploma, and nine million Swedish kronor - was given to two champions fighting sexual violence, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad.

Later this spring, I will return to Duhok in Kurdistan and meet with the Yazidi boy who is now recovering.

Newal, a fighter of the YJÊ, and Shêbo, a volunteer policeman for a Yazidi refugee camp in the Sinjar mountains.

Still, I cannot forget Trump’s recent treatment of Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her campaign to end mass rape in war.

Under his leadership, the group carried out a wave of atrocities, including the enslavement and rape of thousands of women from Iraq’s Yazidi minority.

Where’s a Yazidi slave when you need one?

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Common combinations with yazidi

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "yazidi" in a sentence?
An example: "A Yazidi who lived in Iraq and was an interpreter for the U.S. Army in Iraq co-founded Yazda, a U.S. nongovernmental organization that supports the Yazidi community." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "yazidi" from authentic English texts.
What does "yazidi" mean?
Yazidi means: member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism
How many example sentences with "yazidi" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "yazidi", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.