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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 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
• The Reffitts hosted a mixer for the local branch of the militia at their home, with brisket, potato salad, and beer.
  — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• The tribe remained there until 1706, when the local militia forcibly removed them once again.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• At least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Five died in skirmishes, and badly outgunned, the militia on 25 March agreed to a Russian demand to leave the city.
  — Byrichard Stone, science.org, 8 Dec. 2022
• By the time the British troops left Boston around 2 a.m., Melvin had already rung the town’s bells, mobilizing the local militia.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
• The militia, led by Yasser Abu Shabab, said its fighters had attacked Hamas and killed five militants but made no mention of its own casualties.
  — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
• What happens when a rogue state, a nonstate militia, or a school shooter displays the same creativity and innovation with open-source technology that engineers do?
  — Ludovic Righetti, IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2025