How to Use guerrilla in a Sentence

guerrilla

noun

• The guerrillas controlled half the country.
• Food and drinks come out of the kitchen via three former members of the Tamil Tigers, a guerrilla group that was based in Sri Lanka.
  — Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• In Colombia, the far left came to power this week with the election of a former M-19 guerrilla.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 22 June 2022
• Many were members of guerrilla movements that had vowed to overthrow the state.
  — Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022
• For the past year, a group known as the National Resistance Front has waged a guerrilla war against the Taliban.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• One man from Colombia told me that a guerrilla group that controlled his area tried to recruit him.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• If anything, the guerrilla approach makes the movie feel only more stunted.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Over the course of some three decades, Joseph Kony recruited thousands of child soldiers to serve in his fearsome guerrilla group.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
• But the militants adapted and turned to guerrilla warfare.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• Just outside the Kabul city gates, a guerrilla cornered the famous musician, who had grown out his beard and put on dirty clothes as a disguise.
  — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• My suggestion is the most obvious one: Start your own guerrilla group.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• In Yemen, Saudi Arabia met with a fate common to large powers confronting guerrilla forces abroad.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
• Once the soldier acting as a lookout fled, the guerrilla entered the camp, threw grenades at and opened fire into the tents of unsuspecting Israeli soldiers.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, was sworn in to office late last year.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Assigned as nurses, teachers and transporters of food and weapons, the women were trusted to ensure that guerrilla fighters had places to live and food to eat, Ms. Urdang said.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• After she was caught off guard by the remix blasting throughout the neighborhood, the guerrilla filmer had spotted Ice and Pink filming in a nearby fire escape.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 11 May 2023
• Some of Mexico’s most prominent guerrilla leaders during the country’s dirty war in the 1970s were graduates of the school.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won’t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical economic upheaval.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• But this wasn’t some kind of clever guerrilla marketing campaign, Rainbolt said.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• What needs to happen to spark a Robbie Conal guerrilla postering mission?
  — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• From the style of cinematography to the handheld guerrilla run-and-gun filmmaking, the California sunshine comes through on the screen.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• There are the last remaining humans who are not under the control over the sound-emitters and as such, try to rescue outliers and disrupt her plans through guerrilla warfare.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Waging a guerrilla war against metric road signs and signposts: unscrewing them in the dead of night, stowing them in hedgerows, or amending them using paints and stickers.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2023
• More serious charges have now emerged against him and close allies alleging ties to the Shining Path, a Marxist guerrilla group based in the south of Peru, which once controlled vast swaths of the country.
  — David Unsworth, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Most of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1921 after a guerrilla war.
  — Adam Geller, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
• Then-President Álvaro Uribe, elected on a promise to impose an iron fist against guerrilla groups, named Montoya as army chief in 2006.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• The group’s members have described the onslaught as part guerrilla messaging aimed at shaping coverage of the race and part psy-op aimed at the candidate himself.
  — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Some French and even American guerrillas eagerly plunged into the fight.
  — Katie Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Bolsonaro government repeatedly delayed the release of a groundbreaking 2019 film about the leftist politician and guerrilla Carlos Marighella.
  — Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
• The anonymous British artist chooses public spaces for his guerrilla work, and inadvertently created a paradox: His works can sell for millions, and people have been caught trying to get them off public walls to take to auction houses.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024