How to Use civilian in a Sentence

civilian

1 of 2 noun

• The bomb injured 12 civilians.
• The trip began at the site of a mass grave of Ukrainian civilians killed in the town of Bucha.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 16 June 2023
• About 60% of the Israelis killed Oct. 7 were civilians.
  — Nabih Bulos and A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• And these civilians turn to each other and say, 'Who is that?
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• To save meat for the troops, civilians were asked to cut it from their diets one day each week.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023
• Two others were caught in the slide but were rescued by civilians.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The civilians tackle one subject on the exit ramp from the tunnel.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Israel was telling civilians in the area to move south, to Rafah, on the border with Egypt, or risk being killed.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Teams walked up to many of those civilians and ask them for directions.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• The pace of Israel's military assault has left no place safe in the south, where the U.N. had planned to aid civilians.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2023
• At least not to civilians, and maybe not even to their closest relatives.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 June 2023
• The war has claimed the lives of about 200 Israeli soldiers and thousands of Palestinians, most of them civilians.
  — Isabel Kershner Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• In some cases, civilians struck out at looters, and at others who seemed like a threat.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Many civilians are among the hundreds killed and thousands wounded.
  — CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• But in the time since, Israel's siege has largely harmed civilians and many activists have called for a ceasefire.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• Seventy-eight percent agreed that the laws of war ban the attacking or killing of civilians in their own homes.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• More than 1,200 people have been killed on the Israeli side, mostly civilians killed in the initial attack.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• The latter led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of Russian civilians.
  — Peter Rutland, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• Caught in the crossfire, Palestinian civilians and a society on the brink of collapse.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Brown had been hosting a gathering of friends — a mix of Navy and civilians — when he was fatally shot.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
• The ministry also claimed one Azeri vehicle had struck a mine and two civilians had been killed.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• That night, a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the city, killing ten civilians and wounding dozens more.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Some said they'd been ordered to kill civilians or prisoners.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 15 July 2023
• Secretary Blinken says far too many civilians have died.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• After becoming a civilian, the term of art for a nondancer, Wells turned to modelling.
  — Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
• No civilians were injured in Sunday’s crash, and the pilots were the sole occupants of their respective planes.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Iraqi government said dozens of fighters and several civilians were killed.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Feb. 2024
• Dozens of civilians were killed during anti-government protests in the East African country in July this year.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• The area will need years of rebuilding before Palestinian civilians can live there.
  — Yonah Jeremy Bob, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• Law enforcement blocked civilians from entry right at city limits, marked by a sign right across a bridge lapped by high waters.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023

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civilian

2 of 2 adjective

• The civilian death toll has prompted protests around the world.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Much of Israeli civilian life is on pause at the moment.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• There's been thousands of civilian deaths across the world, or maimings across the world, as a result of these.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• They were dressed in civilian clothes, unarmed and unmasked.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• In a sense, the pope’s comments crystallized growing global horror over the loss of civilian life in Gaza.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• While most of the child care challenges facing the military in Alaska are similar to those in the civilian world, some are unique.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• Now, a lot of people who were in the military just changed into civilian clothes and ran for government.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• Another civilian shot and neutralized one of the gunmen while the second fled, the Zaka spokesman said.
  — Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 20 June 2023
• Hamas has released 61 civilian Israelis and 20 foreign hostages, according to the Times of Israel.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
• That same year, the prince launched a military intervention in Yemen that caused vast civilian deaths and sank into a quagmire.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• In her civilian guise, Carter did an admirable if not totally believable job blending in with the crowd.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• By the time of the fire, the military records center and a nearby one for civilian records had been merged into the National Personnel Records Center.
  — Allen G. Breed and Randy Herschaft, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
• Hostilities ceased, but the trench coat entered civilian life with much of its martial DNA intact.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
• The missing civilian submarine Titan, built to dive to one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, could be out of reach for even military rescue teams.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• The militants were expected to make greater demands in return for freeing scores of civilian men and soldiers.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2023
• Israel says Hamas members live among the civilian community and hide in homes, schools and hospitals.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• At the time, along with Ospreys, the military was flying runway-takeoff drones, and the first handheld civilian drones, little more than toys, were just hitting the market.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• By the time of World War I, aviation emerged as an important component of warfare and as a force in civilian transport a couple of decades later.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• Last month, a Russian patrol vessel fired warning shots at a civilian vessel on the Black Sea and then boarded it to conduct an inspection.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Gallant's visit comes at a time of increasing tensions between the two allies about the next steps in the war and reducing civilian suffering in Gaza.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• The bill also clarifies limits to the powers of local civilian police oversight boards.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
• There are oversized portraits, with names and dates of birth and death on the battlefield — young and old, men and women, pictured in combat gear and civilian clothes, dangling a grenade or petting a puppy.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• This is a ship that left Turkey on its way to India with an international civilian crew, with no Israeli crew members on board.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• None of this is to minimize the suffering or discontent of those civilian souls who wait all year for Burning Man, or to say that there’s solely a cynical spin on this.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• After a disagreement about a citation, Kimbrough tased Hollman and allowed a civilian tow truck driver to kneel on his neck.
  — Essence, 10 Jan. 2024
• Like other parts of Ukraine’s civilian technology, the city pivoted its tools to keep people safe and support the war effort, bootstrapping and rewiring the systems at pace.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
• Still, international criticism of Israel's conduct in the war has grown because of the rising civilian death toll.
  — Bassem Mroue, Samy Magdy, and Najib Jobain, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2024
• But in Muslim countries and across much of the West, public attention has fixed more on Israel’s punishing destruction of Gaza and the staggering civilian death toll.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2024
• Hamas is the one who always uses civilian targets to conduct operations.
  — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Porter and Schiff have been broadly supportive of Biden’s efforts to support Israel while gently urging its leaders to be more mindful of civilian loss of life and thinking about what comes next in Gaza.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024