How to Use militant in a Sentence

militant

adjective

• The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• The militant group is vowing to respond to U.S.-led strikes.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The rooms are adorned with tiles more fitting of a home than the underground compound of a militant group.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• Six of those who died there were members of the Palestinian militant group, which emerged in the city last year.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• That is where the militant group is holding more than 200 hostages, Israel says.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the ruling Hamas militant group issued a veiled threat following the Nablus raid.
  — Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• The nation is still reeling from the militant group's cross-border raid last year that started the war.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
• Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• The militant group’s move has drawn condemnations from the US and the European Union.
  — Shafi Kakar, CNN, 5 June 2023
• Some of the most disruptive attacks have been staged by the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen and has ties to Iran.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since the Islamic militant group took control of Gaza in 2007.
  — Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2023
• That’s a fine goal, but the left’s demands are becoming more militant.
  — David Bahnsen, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• Five members of an Islamist militant group were sentenced to death last year, while one was jailed for life.
  — Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
• Tuesday’s report to Congress comes a year and a half after the militant group’s return to power stunned the world.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The militant group has sustained heavy losses but has not been destroyed.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• The Jenin incursion was meant to weaken militant groups.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 7 July 2023
• Now, with starvation, profiteering, and internal chaos on the rise, the militant group that has ruled the strip for 17 years is nowhere to be found.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• The military wing of the militant group Islamic Jihad claimed the three as members.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• Palestinian militant groups claimed three of the dead as members.
  — Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• The film takes a pretty militant stance, but at the same time, there’s a sharp satire of idealistic, naïve Greenpeace-type activists.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• The militant group’s 2014 assault on the museum stunned the world with its brutality.
  — Dr. Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The strikes also killed six Hezbollah fighters, according to the militant group.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The militant group confirmed that its deputy head of police operations in Rafah was killed.
  — Frances vinall, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• And as a militant stage manager, there’s Allison Tolman in one of her first on-screen roles.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
• In a follow-up statement, the Israeli government claimed that the source of the attack was the militant group Islamic Jihad.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• The militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, praised the decision as brave and supportive of Palestinian rights.
  — Ceyda Caglayan, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• Two years later, the Palestinian militant group Hamas took control of the enclave.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 16 May 2024
• The war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, now in its fifth week, has claimed thousands of lives and ignited a geopolitical firestorm.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• As the simile suggests, the pen could be used as a weapon, producing militant verses that would advance the nationalist cause.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Emirates passengers aren’t allowed to bring pagers and walkie-talkies on board, the airline said, after similar devices belonging to the militant group Hezbollah exploded in Lebanon last month.
  — Byjason Ma, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024