How to Use paramilitary in a Sentence
paramilitary
adjective- Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.
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As in the game, the city is full of paramilitary forces.
—Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
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The term refers to a paramilitary group that helped Hitler and the Nazis gain power in Germany.
—Washington Post, 30 July 2021
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Two paramilitary soldiers stand guard at the entrance of Press Colony in the city.
—Nusrat Sidiq, NBC News, 26 June 2022
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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
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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
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Antifa is a paramilitary group that has done this over the summer.
—Hollie McKay, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2020
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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
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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
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The Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, are also here.
—New York Times, 30 June 2021
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She and her daughters were displaced from her home by paramilitary groups about 13 years ago.
—Washington Post, 9 May 2022
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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
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But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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These paramilitary policing units began to form in the 1970s.
—Arthur Rizer, National Review, 6 Mar. 2020
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The authorities worked with paramilitary groups to crush the JVP.
—Vincent Bevins, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
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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
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Soon, the paramilitary, the vehicles, formed a circling prison wall for Kanye West, many layers deep.
—Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
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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
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Much of the city has been left in ruins by intense battles between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 27 May 2025
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In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, paramilitary culture fell out of favor.
—Rachel Monroe, Wired, 15 Jan. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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On the other is a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces.
—An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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She was raped first by paramilitary fighters and then by soldiers.
—Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
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Simeón Enríquez Gómez, the third paramilitary fighter, was also convicted of raping two of the women.
—Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
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