How to Use militia in a Sentence

militia

noun

• 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
• 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 most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• 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 militia has said the attacks are in response to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• Hemedti joined the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia that fought against the Darfur rebels.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• When Russian forces floundered, the private militia known as the Wagner Group took over the fight.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
• At least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Hezbollah is one of Iran’s proxy militias and has threatened to open a second front against Israel.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp.
  — Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
• Israeli strikes in Lebanon risk drawing Lebanon's Hezbollah militia into the fighting, which could lead to war.
  — Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Kataib Hezbollah is the radical Iraqi Shiite militia named by the Pentagon as the likely source of the attack.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• White supremacy is a unifying thread through these stories of police ties to right-wing militias and hate groups.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Just two days before his visit, armed militia carried out a massacre in the region that left at least 15 people dead.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
• The militia groups have been clear in linking their latest escalations to the U.S’s support for Israel.
  — Mathias Hammer, TIME, 25 Oct. 2023
• These groups helped feed parts of the militia movement that, by the early 1990s, had grown to an unprecedented size, according to Belew and others.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Season 1 finale saw Joel — whose daughter was killed during the chaos of the outbreak — wipe out an entire militia base in order to keep Ellie alive.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• And Russia’s notorious militia force, the Wagner Group, is poised to step into the void.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Israeli officials fear the militia may be weighing a more forceful attack of its own.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Belgorod, in Russia’s west along the border with Ukraine, has been the target of strikes and incursions by anti-Putin militias.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• But, as a way of keeping militants within the fold and of keeping pace with the P.L.O. as a force of resistance, Yassin sanctioned the import of arms and the formation of nascent militia groups.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Rhodes wanted Trump to take advantage of old language in the law that mentions militias and to deploy his far-right Oath Keepers group to keep Trump in power.
  — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• American militia would come together to cook over smoke and flames in the South on a regular basis, Food52.com reports.
  — USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• Since then, the militia group has sought to use food as a weapon, withholding supplies from the hungry in a bid to coerce men and boys to join its ranks, according to over three dozen witnesses.
  — Pallabi Munsi, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• And Jepperd, who once worked as a hunter for a despotic militia, is desperate to rescue Gus (and his fellow hybrid kids) from his former boss.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Hezbollah is linked to Hamas through Iran’s regional network of allied militias.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• Just beyond the militia, a woman pushed a stroller on a gravel road and a child wandered across a playground with artificial grass and a brightly colored slide.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Edward Vallejo was tried alongside three members of the militia group Oath Keepers, who jurors also found guilty.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024