How to Use combatant in a Sentence

combatant

noun

• Britain was a main combatant in World War II.
• During the brawl, one of the combatants pulled a knife and stabbed the other two, then fled.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The ex-combatants weren’t handcuffed, and met the researchers face to face.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 9 May 2018
• Despite a driving, chilly rain, the combatants lived up to the hype.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Women from that class, the Navy said, were the first to serve on combatant ships and aircraft.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
• One of the combatants, 20, told police that the other man spit on him.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• But like two combatants in a war, all the civilians can do is shake their heads.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• Soon, the front of the room was a royal rumble, sending combatants from the stage to the floor, and some on the floor running for the doors.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• The army has fought back hard, claiming to have killed 411 combatants.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• The first round was pretty back-and-forth between the combatants.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And the fortresses that dot the earth are where the biggest, scariest combatants await.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 June 2019
• The chicken wars are on, and the latest combatant to enter the fray is a giant.
  — Dan Carson, Houston Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2019
• As the war entered its 15th year, the United States faced a new combatant in Afghanistan and the old fault lines began to shift.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• One by one the combatants were downed, then picked up and revived by a girl’s giant hand.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Past the tunnel, by the locker rooms, in the hallway where the coaches go, that’s for the combatants, that’s for the competitors.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
• As both combatants climbed the same ladder toward the belt, Edge knocked Hardy off the ladder.
  — Gene Guillot, NOLA.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Competitive combatant The rules of the game this year have been tweaked as well.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
• The campaign could cost the lives of thousands of combatants and thousands of civilians as well.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Israel said that all those who had been killed so far were combatants.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• The noise of the fighting was moving upward, but the combatants were still hidden from view.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
• Some reporters were among those who tried to restrain the two combatants.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
• The rift that opens between Bea and the two combatants feels somehow contrived.
  — Jane Horwitz, kansascity, 8 Feb. 2018
• Vargas, a hand-to-hand combatant of that war, is taking me on a tour of his biggest busts in San Diego.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• The Russians have 21 ships in the Black Sea 12 of them are surface combatant ships and nine of them are amphibious ships.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• This one didn’t get so much out of hand that the combatants were sent to the locker room in a form of a timeout, as happened Sunday.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 31 July 2017
• But while the prize may be minor, the combatants are certainly not.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 July 2024
• In declaring war on the upper class that made him, Carlson joined a long, volatile lineage of combatants against the élite.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• And let’s be clear, these are two different sports — from the size of the gloves fighters wear, to the size and shape of the ring, to the fact the one sport allows combatants to use their legs to strike.
  — Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Among the casualties was Samuel Whittemore, said to be 81 years old and thought to be the oldest combatant to take part in the Revolution.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
• The rest of the day the British retreated toward Boston, fighting increasingly desperate battles against a militia that grew to some 4,000 combatants.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025