How to Use gulag in a Sentence

gulag

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  • The Uyghurs in the gulag, among others, could attest to this.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
  • For all his silly tweets, Trump hasn’t opened any gulags (yet).
    — Alexander Nazaryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2017
  • Mendelevitch was captured and spent 11 years in a gulag.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Mistakes like this promise a one-way ticket to the gulag or worse.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Stalin was a man of gulags and firing squads, a poster villain for the dangers posed by despots.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Nadym, a former gulag camp, is now a booming town of gas workers.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
  • More than a million Uighur men and women have been thrown into this gulag.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Or look at the man who, quite literally, wrote the book on the Soviet gulag.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Here, the gulag is more than merely a memory, and a residual fear hangs in the air even today.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Which came from legitimate business, so to speak, and which from a gulag camp?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The story unfolds within a grand but fading hotel; not quite Eloise at the Plaza, but far from Ivan Denisovich in the gulag.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2019
  • Somebody might end up in a gulag that way, and Matveev wasn’t interested.
    — Keith Gave, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
  • It was founded in the 1940s as a gulag camp for mining tin and uranium, where the prisoners died in great numbers.
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • He’s detained by the authorities, tortured, and sent to a gulag.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • No one is sentencing great athletes to the football gulag.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • And Trump showered a surfeit of praise on the gulag operator.
    — Andrew Malcolm, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2018
  • Does handing over two or three thousand dollars help fund the weapons program, gulag fence-mending or the purchase of medicine?
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 6 June 2018
  • There is a lot to protest in China: including the imprisonment of more than 1 million Uyghurs in a gulag.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • He was arrested and detained in Russia in 2019 and spent nearly three years in a Russian gulag.
    — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
  • This at a time when the penalty for such an offense could be death by execution, or almost certain death in the gulag.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 July 2019
  • Hopper is far from dead, however, and is being held at an icy gulag in Russia.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 15 May 2022
  • But in fact this gulag exists right here in lower Manhattan.
    — Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • This former professor, a survivor of the Holocaust and gulags, is one of the collection’s highlights.
    — Leah Mirakhor, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
  • His grandfather, a peasant, was declared an enemy of the working class and sent to one of this region's many gulag prison camps.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The North Korean gulags are work gulags; the prisoners are forced to work and live in what look like North Korean villages.
    — Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2014
  • For his activism, he was sent to a prison camp on the Coco Islands, a tropical gulag archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • The people who have those markers, who are seen as unsafe for a long time were being shipped off to a gulag of re-education centers.
    — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin's Russia has settled into one-man rule, minus perhaps the worst of the Soviet gulag state.
    — John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Today tens of thousands of North Koreans are believed to languish in gulags and the state allows no dissent.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The people who are stuck in an old way of thinking, in 20th century frameworks, in gulag thinking, are missing what is going on.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020

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