How to Use paramilitary in a Sentence

paramilitary

adjective

• Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.
• Last week, the paramilitary group seized the city.
  — CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
• Antifa is a paramilitary group that has done this over the summer.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2020
• She was raped first by paramilitary fighters and then by soldiers.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
• She and her daughters were displaced from her home by paramilitary groups about 13 years ago.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• Two paramilitary soldiers stand guard at the entrance of Press Colony in the city.
  — Nusrat Sidiq, NBC News, 26 June 2022
• Russia’s defense ministry said its paramilitary forces helped thwart a coup.
  — Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Armed colectivos – paramilitary groups with a stake in the old order – would resist fiercely.
  — Robert Muggah, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
• Armed colectivos – paramilitary groups with a stake in the old order – would resist fiercely.
  — Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Many checkpoints once manned by Basij paramilitary forces have been destroyed or abandoned.
  — Jason Rezaian, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
• The paramilitary tactics must cease and desist.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• Fighting in recent years between the army and a rival paramilitary faction was so bloody that many corpses were left on the streets.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
• The Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, are also here.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• China has sent large numbers of paramilitary forces close to the border with Hong Kong.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
• The term refers to a paramilitary group that helped Hitler and the Nazis gain power in Germany.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• The Wide Awakes were seen in the South more as a paramilitary unit than as a civilian police force.
  — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2026
• The paramilitary Basij militia is often deployed by the regime to suppress protests.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
• Agents in Charlotte wore masks and paramilitary gear, taking people from public places.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 17 Nov. 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
• The Basij are a paramilitary force responsible for keeping order, and one of them was killed.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• 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
• These paramilitary policing units began to form in the 1970s.
  — Arthur Rizer, National Review, 6 Mar. 2020
• Sudan is entering a fourth year of war between the military and paramilitary forces.
  — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
• 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 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
• The paramilitary group Hezbollah was the first to act—despite pleas from the Lebanese government to stay out of the war.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026
• The suspect was not in the military, Craig said, but appeared to have paramilitary training.
  — Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2019
• 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