How to Use militia in a Sentence

militia

noun

• Think of their outreach to Lebanon and LH and the Shia militia groups there.
  — CBS News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The next day, the Taliban pushed the militia members out.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
• Rebels and militias crisscross the desert shared by the two nations.
  — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
• All belonged to the Oath Keepers militia or the rightwing Proud Boys.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• But as the ranks of the civilian militias have swelled over the past 18 months, so have reports of mass killings.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
  — Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• Those groups include both the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq and Syria.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• There are thoughts that was in a local militia and never left the city.
  — al, 19 Feb. 2023
• The Home Guard was a civilian militia that formed in the United Kingdom in 1940.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
• And what about all the other innocents whom the militia tried to kill, like Kayce’s wife and son?
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the group defied a ban and ended up flogged by Cossack militia.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
• The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Those three have several links to the far-right Proud Boys militia.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• Both Israel and the militias avoided causing the kind of damage that could lead to all-out war.
  — Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The pro-independence groups and militias that sprung up amid the war had no such rules.
  — Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• The past months have seen an uptick in deadly militia clashes.
  — Rami Musa, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• The militia has said the attacks are in response to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• Based on a true story of the militia’s fatal beating of a high school student.
  — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• Hemedti joined the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia that fought against the Darfur rebels.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Trump commuted the sentence of Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
• The militia leaders condemned the attack, but most sought to downplay it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The militia leaders condemned the attack, but most sought to downplay it.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
• The indictment links four of his co-defendants to the Three Percenters, a wing of the militia movement.
  — NBC News, 17 June 2021
• When Russian forces floundered, the private militia known as the Wagner Group took over the fight.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
• An armed militia fires at will to shut down a TV news network in Washington.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• They are attacked by militia, and a wounded Matty ends up stranded in the DMZ.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
• The real powers were the party bosses, the oligarchs, and the militia leaders.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
• Among the titles, Black, set in a world where only Black people have super powers, Rogue State, set in a world where militias become the law of the land.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
• Syrian government forces had joined Bedouin militias in clashes with Druze armed groups in the southern Syrian city of Sweida.
  — Greg Dixon, NPR, 16 July 2025