How to Use militia in a Sentence

militia

noun

• Rebels and militias crisscross the desert shared by the two nations.
  — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
• All belonged to the Oath Keepers militia or the rightwing Proud Boys.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• But as the ranks of the civilian militias have swelled over the past 18 months, so have reports of mass killings.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
  — Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• Those groups include both the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq and Syria.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• There are thoughts that was in a local militia and never left the city.
  — al, 19 Feb. 2023
• The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Both Israel and the militias avoided causing the kind of damage that could lead to all-out war.
  — Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The past months have seen an uptick in deadly militia clashes.
  — Rami Musa, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• The militia has said the attacks are in response to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• Hemedti joined the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia that fought against the Darfur rebels.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• When Russian forces floundered, the private militia known as the Wagner Group took over the fight.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
• An armed militia fires at will to shut down a TV news network in Washington.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• At least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Five died in skirmishes, and badly outgunned, the militia on 25 March agreed to a Russian demand to leave the city.
  — Byrichard Stone, science.org, 8 Dec. 2022
• Hezbollah is one of Iran’s proxy militias and has threatened to open a second front against Israel.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• In 2022, Ma Htet Htet joined a militia fighting in central Myanmar.
  — Paul Mozur Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• The time from his arrest to execution, on charges of killing two plainclothes Basij militia, spanned less than a month.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp.
  — Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
• Jason van Tatenhove was once the media spokesman for the militia group known as the Oath Keepers, which played a crucial role in the uprising.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• Israeli strikes in Lebanon risk drawing Lebanon's Hezbollah militia into the fighting, which could lead to war.
  — Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Millions of Arabs whose lives have been shattered by the militia want a different future.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Kataib Hezbollah is the radical Iraqi Shiite militia named by the Pentagon as the likely source of the attack.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• When Butterworth was tried for piracy in what’s now New Jersey, an armed militia stormed the courthouse.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• White supremacy is a unifying thread through these stories of police ties to right-wing militias and hate groups.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Waiting for them at the capitol steps are the Montgomery city police and Alabama militia.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• There is no evidence it is connected to a Haitian militia.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
• At the time the extremist group was a small militia, employing suicide bombs as its most powerful weapon.
  — Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Made By History, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• That rapid decapitation of the militia’s leadership is the result of years of preparation.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024