How to Use death squad in a Sentence

death squad

noun

• One of them, a Raziq family member, was responsible for organizing death squads, according to police officers who worked with him.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Later, these tractors would be used to tear down the fence and open the way for Hamas’s death squads.
  — Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
• The mid-1970s in Argentina saw the start of the Dirty War, in which right-wing death squads killed tens of thousands.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• The All-Stars trained and played under the hostile eyes of armed thugs managed by the head of Trujillo’s death squads.
  — Paul Dickson, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• The group has sold patches and T-shirts adorned with the acronym and celebrating Mr. Pinochet’s death squads.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Michale Kunzelman, and Lindsay Whitehurst , The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps or by roving SS death squads.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
• That the United States had been running death squads under the cover of a police program called Phoenix.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2018
• In the chaos that ensued, the police dispatched death squads to pursue prisoners who had escaped from the city’s jail.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Those documents were later used to seal the fates of the Nazi death squad commanders during the trial.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Why did Marian think that these randos could go up against a Danish death squad?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 June 2021
• Mr Uribe appointed officials with links to right-wing death squads.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2018
• A decade later Santiago Uribe is now on trial for leading a death squad known as the 12 Apostles.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2018
• His death squad was accused of gunning down dozens of migrants trying to sail to Europe, according to a survivor of the massacre.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2019
• Many who fear being nabbed by death squads have also fled to El Salvador, Honduras and Florida.
  — Maria Verza, The Seattle Times, 25 Oct. 2018
• South Africa, conspiracy theorists point out, was the party with the death squad contacts handy.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Another, a ranch hand, described a death squad boss roaming the property freely on horseback.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2018
• Zimbabwe has been ruled by Robert Mugabe since 1980 with infamous death squads.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• To posit such an America is not quite as absurd as simply to posit a Mugabe who doesn’t deploy North Korean–trained death squads.
  — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
• As an opposition senator in the 2000s, Mr. Petro exposed ties between right-wing death squads and Colombian politicians, dozens of whom went to prison.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• At least 60 people were also killed by death squads set up by members of Spain’s security forces and clandestine far-right groups.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Duterte has said testimony linking him to the death squads was fabricated.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2017
• In El Salvador, Henry had learned to distrust the police, who often worked for rival gangs or paramilitary death squads.
  — Hannah Dreier, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Apr. 2018
• That didn't happen, but what had taken its place were Shia death squads seeking revenge for Sunni insurgent attacks.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
• Arena was founded in 1981 by Roberto d’Aubuisson, whose calls for the extermination of Communists by death squads were embraced by the country’s oligarchy and far right.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• Untold decades of backing despots and death squads in Latin America produced the multitudes of desperate migrants who have come to our borders, pleading for help.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• His career almost derailed in the late 1990s, when two members of Congress accused him of lying under oath while testifying about Haitian death squads.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• That said, the visiting stars had a bit too good a time, diminishing their on-field performance and resulting in the head of the government's death squad being attached to their team's management.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• After running away from Fjölnir’s death squad, Amleth is found by Vikings and trained to be a warrior who raids villages, grabs spears out of midair and throws them back at his attackers, and stands by as women and children are sold off and killed.
  — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
• That was another era — of death squads, the Reagan Doctrine against communism, guerrillas wielding red banners and AK-47s.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
• Maduro has responded to public protests by jailing and killing dissenters; death squads aligned with the government have assassinated at least seven thousand people in the past year and a half.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024