How to Use terrorist in a Sentence

terrorist

1 of 2 noun

• In 2009 a terrorist threw a bomb at a group of tourists in the medieval market of Khan el-Khalili.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 9 Dec. 2022
• Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• In one, a terrorist is standing on an Israeli man's chest and shoots him point-blank in the face.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The man in question was not a terrorist, at least not in the conventional sense.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
• The sources added that, since the attack in Moscow, terrorists are trying to maintain a climate of alarm and fear.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• If one of the Hamas terrorists had been able to penetrate the perimeter, those people would have been slaughtered.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• More than 260 of the victims were pursued by the terrorists and gunned down at a music festival.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Biden was also met with a heckler toward the start of the speech, who was calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
• Yarden, who was running alone, grew exhausted after a while, fell to the ground, and tried to fool the Hamas terrorists who found her by playing dead.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Also, in its reports, Hamas does not properly break down which of the deaths were of terrorists and which were of civilians.
  — The Editors, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
• We were told then in 2014 not to ask for weapons, negotiate with terrorists, and do reforms.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 12 July 2023
• One, that foreign terrorists don't seek to travel to the homeland to inflict damage here.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2024
• His remarks focused on what Israel shouldn’t do in Gaza rather than on how to defeat the Hamas terrorists who are still holding around 140 hostages.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• If the conflict ends in stalemate or cease-fire, the terrorists will have gotten away with mass atrocities on Israeli soil.
  — Michael Oren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
• So does this mean that Doc might die not at the hands of terrorists but by the man who helped unleash nuclear power — J. Robert Oppenheimer?
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• When the terrorists attacked, Bob suited back up and, like so many brave first responders, raced toward the danger to save and search for others.
  — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
• The United States should stand with our allies when they are threatened by dictators and terrorists.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• The first versions of Brown men in TV or film were either terrorists or the incapable and weak comedic relief characters.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2023
• Honorary consuls tied to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah have stood accused of moving drugs and money.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2022
• Israel has launched surgical-style urban warfare to root out Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024
• Israel says the incursions target terrorists who have attacked Israelis in the past or are planning to do so.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The next day, a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed seven people in east Jerusalem during the Jewish sabbath.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the Israeli military was unprepared as terrorists streamed out of the Gaza Strip.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The passengers aboard fought back against the terrorists, subsequently causing the plane to crash in the field in Pennsylvania.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2023
• The country will be forced to free terrorists held in Israeli prisons, including people with the blood of Israeli civilians on their hands.
  — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
• Russia is enough a part of the global economy that a U.S. terrorist designation could cause damage around the world.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
• With access to source codes and weights, terrorists or scammers can give AI systems destructive drives.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• But many were shocked to see sympathy for — or agreement with — the terrorist who masterminded 9/11.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• The United States must stand with Israel against the terrorists who attacked innocent Israelis.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Its members are terrorists who entered Israel, killed 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023

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terrorist

2 of 2 adjective

• That means users on Threads won’t be able to praise terrorist or hate groups, buy firearms or make threats against people or groups.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• My daughter was taken as a hostage by a terrorist group.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• As for what Putin does now, the 2004 terrorist attack in Beslan may be instructive.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
• And there is this famous area called the area of the three borders, famously known for the heavy concentration of terrorist groups.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Following the Moscow attack, France – which hosts the Olympics this year – raised the terrorist threat level to the maximum.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• Israel has accused the agency of having ties to Hamas and its Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• There were children forced to appear in hostage videos, and others forced to watch gruesome footage of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
  — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Countless terrorist plans have been thwarted, but the world knows only about those that succeed.
  — Vijay Pande, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• One hundred seventy two people on the terrorist watch [list] have come on your watch.
  — Samuel Schaffer, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2023
• The devices were filled with nails, screws, and pellets, along with materials to make more bombs, and books about terrorist bombings.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
• New York's offer of housing for survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack just steps away from Ground Zero has left some upset and others pleased by the news.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
• Cross burnings were tools for intimidation by the racist anti-Black terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, throughout the 1900s.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
• The terrorist group and staff at the hospital denied Hamas is using the hospital as a command center.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• Khalife was awaiting trial on terror charges for sparking a false threat of a terrorist attack by planting fake bombs on the base.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• But Jihadist inspired terrorist attacks are at an all-time high.
  — ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
• Egypt considers the Brotherhood a terrorist group and accused both Qatar and Al Jazeera of supporting it.
  — Josef Federman, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
• And a lot of this is, is women running with their children to keep their sons from being recruited into terrorist groups.
  — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Some in Congress have sought to brand the group a foreign terrorist organization.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The stalking and terrorist threat charges were reduced to misdemeanors in November 1998.
  — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Critics of a new initiative in the House and elsewhere, however, view it as liable to empower terrorist groups.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 17 July 2023
• This essay was updated to address the terrorist attack that took place outside Moscow on March 22.
  — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• Of those, 37% either plotted or followed through with a deadly terrorist attack.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The articles described the network as a terrorist-recruiting branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Each of the four suspects was arrested and charged with committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
  — Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
• The blast was among the deadliest terrorist attacks in months in Pakistan, where some militant groups operating along the border with Afghanistan have become more active over the past year.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• The answer could be to keep Palestinians in a state of further oppression to prevent them from committing terrorist attacks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• Kenya has suffered terrorist attacks in recent years (though, of course, so have Paris and London), and the American government continues to warn against travel to Lamu.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
• On some level, the song was Keith’s response not only to 9/11, but to a more directly personal tragedy: the death of his own father, whose reaction to the terrorist attacks Keith imagines.
  — Nadine Smith, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
• Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union.
  — Daniel Cancel, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The funding, training, weapons, and other support Iran provides Hezbollah support complex and heinous terrorist attacks like these.
  — Jack Carr, Fox News, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024