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 region is also difficult to access, leaving many civilians displaced and facing famine.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
• The United Nations has tried for more than a decade to advance drone non-proliferation efforts that could include limits such as forbidding the targeting of civilians or banning the use of swarms for ethnic cleansing.
  — Frank Bajak, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024

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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
• The defense questioned the handling of Waddell’s body after she was pronounced dead when prosecutors called to the stand a civilian investigator who was with Joshua police at the time.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024