How to Use paramilitary in a Sentence

paramilitary

adjective

• Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.
• As in the game, the city is full of paramilitary forces.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
• The term refers to a paramilitary group that helped Hitler and the Nazis gain power in Germany.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Two paramilitary soldiers stand guard at the entrance of Press Colony in the city.
  — Nusrat Sidiq, NBC News, 26 June 2022
• People pause on street corners and in the shade of trees, under the watchful gaze of the paramilitary forces and the police.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2020
• After the police failed to stop the marchers — many of them armed — paramilitary troops were called in to quell the violence.
  — Salman Masood, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• Antifa is a paramilitary group that has done this over the summer.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2020
• That’s a far cry from a wild-eyed paramilitary man living off-grid in a bunker designed to weather an EMP blast.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2020
• The family fled, first to a farm and later to a small town, and spent the next few years evading the police, the military and paramilitary groups.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• The Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, are also here.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• She and her daughters were displaced from her home by paramilitary groups about 13 years ago.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• But the two generals could not agree on a timeline for bringing the paramilitary forces under the umbrella of the army.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• The strikes, launched by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the third day, attacked a terminal at the city's airport overnight on Tuesday.
  — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 6 May 2025
• Day and night, through steep hills and rivers, amidst poisonous snakes and dangerous paramilitary groups, Sury emerged on the other side.
  — Paola Ramos, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
• These paramilitary policing units began to form in the 1970s.
  — Arthur Rizer, National Review, 6 Mar. 2020
• The authorities worked with paramilitary groups to crush the JVP.
  — Vincent Bevins, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Wolves are a paramilitary group that overwhelmed the army soon after the outbreak and now hold dominion over some parts of Seattle.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 15 June 2020
• Soon, the paramilitary, the vehicles, formed a circling prison wall for Kanye West, many layers deep.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The crimes for which they were convicted include the 1980 killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the kidnapping of a judge in the same year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, paramilitary culture fell out of favor.
  — Rachel Monroe, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
• The superhero team started as the paramilitary wing of Xavier's mutant school, and filled its ranks with top-notch students.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• Four days later in Worcester, Massachusetts, the paramilitary group called the Sons of Freedom removed the king’s coat of arms from the courthouse and burned it in the street.
  — Andrew Lawler, National Geographic, 1 July 2020
• The Winters’ nesting is brought to an abrupt end one night when a paramilitary squad raids their house, shoots Mia in front of Ethan, forcibly hauls him into the back of a van and kidnaps his child.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• On the other is a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces.
  — An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• Rhodes, 56, of Granbury Texas, was charged with 10 other members of the paramilitary group in the alleged attempt to overthrow the government.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
• He also is accused of selling arms on the black market to al-Qaeda, the Taliban and paramilitary groups across Africa.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• He had been accused of stabbing two members of the paramilitary Basij militia, which is leading the crackdown.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The series looked at the ties between the paramilitary groups that terrorized Northern Ireland during the Troubles and the present-day drug trade.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• Despite his resolute disdain for the regime, at 14 years old he was required by law to join the Hitler Youth, a paramilitary organization.
  — Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025