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 pro-independence groups and militias that sprung up amid the war had no such rules.
    Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The real powers were the party bosses, the oligarchs, and the militia leaders.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The Fano militia was a major actor in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict that erupted in the northern part of the country in November 2020.
    Cara Anna, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
  • In 2022, an armed militia watched ballot drop boxes in Arizona as part of a long-term voter intimidation plan.
    Worth Sparkman, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Hezbollah’s reputation in the country has suffered; many Lebanese, including the militia’s Shiite supporters, are angry at the scale of destruction of a war that many saw as unnecessary.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024

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