How to Use jihad in a Sentence

jihad

noun

• In the past few years the sparks of jihad have been struck in this tinderbox.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• These strivers have no use for jihad, but the year is 1999 and the FBI is already on high terror alert.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
• In 1996, bin Laden declared a jihad against the United States.
  — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• This is a list of girls who have become victims of love jihad.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some of its is because there are so many other places to wage jihad — like Iraq and Afghanistan.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2008
• God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad – and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.
  — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
• The person replied that Lutchman needed to prove himself first with an act of jihad in the US.
  — Lisa Rose, CNN, 16 May 2018
• As part of the plea, Damache admitted to training a child to prepare for jihad.
  — Claudia Lauer, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
• When five of their friends went to Pakistan this spring to return to jihad, both men brimmed with jealousy.
  — Christina Goldbaum Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Then when the survivors give up their jihad-y ways, Jared will try the trick of making them listen to that one Shins song again.
  — Alex Siquig, GQ, 12 Dec. 2017
• Wanting to blow up buildings in the name of a religious jihad is a viewpoint.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021
• There is no certainty to this outcome, though, and the jihad is clearly at odds with the views of most Americans.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 Mar. 2021
• The deal is meant to end the decades-old Muslim rebellion in Mindanao and reduce the attraction of jihad.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2017
• Those intent on continuing to wage jihad will still have the means.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Then came jihad and Islamic terrorism, right up to the pandemic at the end of 2019.
  — Anna Zanardi Cappon, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• But Trappes also saw about 70 of its youths leave for jihad to Syria and Iraq, the largest contingent, per capita, from any French city.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• In fact, Islam itself, the jihad, was founded by a woman and the prophet’s an employee of a woman.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• And after a long absence, all three were now involved in global jihad.
  — Ali Soufan, Newsweek, 19 June 2017
• Christians are also being killed by Boko Haram, a jihad terrorist group, in the Borno state, the report said.
  — Fox News, 24 Dec. 2019
• Most of the extremist groups still hiding in the jungles tread a line between organized crime and jihad.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• The Qaeda leader released a video in May speaking about the importance of jihad in Kashmir.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• But the City of Denver’s little jihad against fledging entrepreneurs, like those who do short-term rentals of their property, isn’t about noisy guests.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father's style of jihad.
  — Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father’s style of jihad.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
• The Islamic State, in turn, has been able to broadcast the local militants’ attacks as proof that their global jihad is alive and well.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• The modern Salafi–jihadi movement formed during the Afghan jihad.
  — Katherine Zimmerman, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
• That is when al-Qaeda, which had emerged out of the Afghan mujahideen’s 1980s jihad against the Soviets, re-established its headquarters in Afghanistan.
  — The Editors, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
• Up next, disturbing news on the jihads in America that almost no one is talking about, not even the bachelor, stay tuned.
  — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Trump’s pick for secretary of state has, like Bolton, aligned himself with the counter-jihad without endorsing their most extreme ideas.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• There is no doubt that al-Zawahri was the leader of a terrorist movement whose global jihad has killed thousands of people.
  — Charlie Savage, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024