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Example sentences for "ghettos"

Lexicographically close words:
ghee; gherkin; gherkins; ghesse; ghests; ghillie; ghost; ghostes; ghosties; ghostlike
  1. Huge fortunes seemed to be growing like mushrooms all over the five Ghettos of New York and Brooklyn.

  2. This was the first ray that penetrated the Ghettos from without.

  3. In the countries of Europe it will last as long as there are any disabilities for the Jews, as long as they are secluded in Ghettos and driven into Pales.

  4. The air of the Ghettos was impregnated with Kabbala.

  5. They did not indeed expel the Jews, as in Luebeck and Bremen, but they were relegated to Ghettos within Austria, beyond which they were not allowed to pass.

  6. With similar ends in view the printing-press sent into the Ghettos a large number of instructive works in Hebrew and German.

  7. They had been secluded in their ghettos for centuries, and had consequently acquired a physical and moral physiognomy differentiating them in a measure from their former oppressors.

  8. This order, which was so little temporary that it has not yet been repealed, had the effect of creating a number of fresh ghettos within the pale of Jewish settlement.

  9. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invaders are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries.

  10. Jewish ghettos in the East, especially in the camps of Yzbica and Piaski near Lublin, and also in Riga, Wilna, Kowno, Warsaw and Lodz.

  11. Living the segregated life that as a rule they had to, from the earliest times (the Ghettos have only disappeared in the nineteenth century), it would seem almost impossible for them to have done great intellectual work.

  12. Down almost to our own time the Ghettos have existed in Europe, and popular tumults against them continue to occur.

  13. Fires were common in ghettos and, owing to the narrowness of the streets, generally very destructive, especially as from fear of plunder the Jews themselves closed their gates on such occasions and refused assistance.

  14. The most important ghettos were those at Venice, Frankfort, Prague and Trieste.

  15. The earliest regular ghettos were established in Italy in the 11th century, though Prague is said to have had one in the previous century.

  16. He tells the story of the Ghettos calmly, sympathetically and conscientiously, and his deductions are in harmony with those of all other intelligent and fair-minded men.

  17. Many concentration camps and ghettos were set up in which Jews were incarcerated and tortured, starved, subjected to merciless atrocities, and finally exterminated.

  18. They are to be placed in ghettos and at the same time are to be separated according to sexes.

  19. They lived in more comfortable homes and in delightful cities of their own--delightful compared with the slums and ghettos in which they had formerly dwelt.

  20. In all truth, there in the labor-ghettos is the roaring abysmal beast the oligarchs fear so dreadfully--but it is the beast of their own making.

  21. His press photographer was sent to visit the ghettos of the East in the spring of 1943, the time of the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto.

  22. He knew that the best the Jews could hope for was a miserable existence in the ghettos of the East.

  23. Groups of the SA were concerned in the ill-treatment of Jews in the ghettos of Vilna and Kaunas.

  24. The creation of ghettos was carried out on an extensive scale, and by an order of the Security Police Jews were compelled to wear a yellow star to be worn on the breast and back.

  25. The cry of liberty wakened a loud echo in the ghettos of even the most backward countries.

  26. The restricted ghettos and small communities of the Occident widened out, in Poland, into provinces with cities and towns peopled by Jews.

  27. Fancy all the Ghettos of the world amalgamating.

  28. For it lies in the heart of that part of the East Side which has within the last two or three decades become the Ghetto of the American metropolis, and, indeed, the metropolis of the Ghettos of the world.

  29. This was the way in which Gitl came to receive her first lesson in the five or six score English words and phrases which the omnivorous Jewish jargon has absorbed in the Ghettos of English-speaking countries.

  30. Not only did the Magic Title evoke a widespread interest among the intellectuals of the day, but it brought Jews out of the ghettos and made them conscious of their origin and destiny.

  31. Events occurring in countries undiscovered when Europe confined the Jews in Ghettos are known to us in the course of an hour.

  32. There can be no economic revival in ghettos when the most violent among us are allowed to roam free.

  33. I shall urge special methods and special funds to reach the hundreds of thousands of Americans that are now trapped in the ghettos of our big cities and, through Head Start, to try to reach out to our very young, little children.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghettos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.