How to Use militate against in a Sentence

militate against

verb

• Schjerfbeck’s mature style doesn’t just use vague forms but rigorously militates against detail.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• But Lindsay militated against this approach.
  — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
• Ambivalence is a story of solitude, patience, and faith—qualities that contemporary culture seems to militate against.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
• The wrong ordering principle Powerful forces militate against the idea of organizing the world into spheres-of-influence.
  — Comfort Ero, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• The Islamic Republic can either militate against Mecca, in other words, or give up its revolutionary ambitions at last.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026