How to Use jihadist in a Sentence

jihadist

noun

• Both young men had trained and fought as jihadists in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2020
• In our long staring contest with the jihadists, now is not the time to blink.
  — David French, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
• There seems to be a fad amongst jihadists to slice up teachers.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Desbois followed the news as Yazidis fled the jihadists of the Middle East.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2018
• As the jihadists face more pressure in Mosul and Raqqah, many fear the Islamists will forge a path to the Hamad.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• In France, more than 200 people have died in jihadist attacks over the past three years.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
• Most of the attacks have been claimed or praised by the jihadist group Islamic State.
  — Emma Ross-Thomas, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• That could be almost as tough as fighting the jihadists.
  — Vivienne Walt / Baghdad, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• That was the difference he, a scholar, made to the jihadist movement.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Just like jihadists, fame, even in death, is preferable to their anonymity.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019
• The video shows her hands tied and she is pushed into a Jeep with multiple jihadists.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• In the 1990s, Pakistan opened the floodgates for jihadists to cross the border, setting off years of heavy fighting.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• What does this mean for al Qaeda and other jihadist groups?
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 24 Aug. 2021
• The absence of any plan to deal with the detainees is part of the wider disorder in the lands liberated from the jihadists.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• What is true is that jihadist attacks have made a difference to the most harmful crimes.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• The dead jihadists leave behind orphans to be fed a diet of revenge.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• The women and children who died this week did so at the hand of the jihadist, according to U.S. officials.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• The goal of the Nigerian jihadists is to expulse the Christians towards the south, then to eliminate them.
  — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
• Some journalists would stop passers-by and ask to be introduced to a jihadist.
  — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• The government controlled less than half the country and the jihadists stood primed to march into Baghdad.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• The area is controlled by the hardest-core rebels, jihadists linked to al-Qaeda, who will not go quietly.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• This follows the stabbing of two people in London by a jihadist who had just been released.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• In Nigeria, the collectors had to get around floods and an insurgency by the jihadist group Boko Haram.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• Along with other refugees he was put in a bus, driven to the Syrian border and handed over to jihadists.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• The jihadists are equipped to transfer to insurgent-style warfare.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• The Afghan jihadist movement not only has the upper hand in the battlespace, it is also emboldened by the deal with the United States.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2020
• If all your friends are using Tor for porn surfing from work, consider that might not be the profile of Tor users any more than the jihadists are.
  — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 27 July 2007
• Then a homegrown jihadist group began to form and attacks became more brazen.
  — Brahima Ouedraogo, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• This war, and other conflicts worldwide, will not end until jihadists are eliminated.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2024
• Then came a much bigger intervention led by the French that pulled in other European countries and the United States, and that expanded to neighboring countries in pursuit of jihadists.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024