How to Use antifa in a Sentence

antifa

noun

• But much of what politicians say about antifa isn't quite true.
  — Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Authorities have not claimed that the man accused of firing the shots is a member of antifa.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• All along, Mour has dealt with wild rumors that antifa is somehow involved.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Some blamed it on leftist movements like antifa, and others on a lack of police planning.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• For months prior to the rally, Calhoun took to social media to express his ire at Democrats and antifa and to warn of a coming civil war.
  — Chris Joyner, ajc, 9 Jan. 2021
• The biggest spender on ads mentioning antifa is the Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump group.
  — Joshua Jamerson and Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Vysotsky said antifa is shorthand for anti-fascist, and its meaning is broad.
  — Natallie St. Onge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2020
• The president has asserted many of the protesters are members of antifa.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 2 June 2020
• Another found that a majority of them blame the Capitol riot on Democrats, antifa or the Capitol Police.
  — Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
• Rumors circulated that the left-wing antifa had breached the seat of American democracy.
  — Colleen Long, chicagotribune.com, 16 Jan. 2022
• The Trump administration, however, continued to play up the threat of antifa.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
• Citing questionable claims of antifa and the possibility of looting in the city, Chief McMurray has defended the use of force against the protesters.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2020
• First, some blamed the deadly Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol on left-wing antifa antagonists, a theory quickly debunked.
  — Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 13 Sep. 2021
• Masked antifa gangsters, armed with crowbars, smashed their way through Portland’s Bison Coffeehouse’s windows on Oct. 5.
  — Faith Bottum, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2022
• Still, the right-wing political-media complex, with Trump at its apex, continues to chase the ideological golden goose of antifa.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
• But in my opinion, the fear of antifa in militia communities and beyond is more about the social change its presence represents rather than a real or systematic threat of violence.
  — Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• The day after the 2018 midterms, as darkness fell over Washington’s leafy Kent neighborhood, members of a local antifa group appeared outside Mr. Carlson’s home to protest his coverage of the migrant caravan.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Their preparations, training, gear and weapons were to protect themselves against potential violence from left-wing antifa activists or to be ready if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act to call up a militia.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Authorities have not alleged that the attack had anything to do with antifa — a broad, anti-fascist movement without any clear hierarchy.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 10 June 2020
• Then a brawl between white supremacists and anti-fascist (antifa) demonstrators in Detroit ratcheted things up.
  — Laurie Udesky, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• Equating antifa with QAnon betrays how Facebook fundamentally doesn’t grasp the issue.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Amid the back and forth, Portland residents are left drained from the conflict and are increasingly decrying the property destruction thought to be perpetuated by antifa.
  — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 5 May 2021
• Some conservative figures have tried to muddy the waters even further, falsely claiming that antifa was responsible for the violence or, more bizarrely, that the FBI somehow organized the riot.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
• There’s no evidence antifa activists caused the violence on Jan. 6, although 272 demonstrators in the pro-Trump crowd have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding police during the riot.
  — Chris Joyner, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• The violence was stoked by outsiders, antifa agitators, or anti-Trump law enforcement figures operating on orders from the deep state.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Trump administration was reluctant to confront domestic extremism, or did so by touting a false equivalency between the extreme right and Black Lives Matter, antifa, and other movements on the left.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• Transgender anarcho-communist antifa Black Lives Matter agitators have destroyed the hearts of multiple urban centers and are working to destroy the entire country (taking everyone’s guns away in the process).
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• Ngo’s assessment that antifa poses the most significant risk to the nation’s safety conflicts with those of federal law enforcement officials and experts who study political extremism.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2021
• Wildfires have been a particularly active time for militias, including Echo Company, often due to misinformation that antifa or groups of looters were coming to take advantage of their communities.
  — Chiara Sottile, NBC News, 29 July 2022
• President Donald Trump regularly portrayed antifa — a loose network of anti-fascist activists — as major domestic terrorists.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024