How to Use militiaman in a Sentence

militiaman

noun

• Palestinian militiamen in the camp held out for three-and-a-half days.
  — Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023
• Some of his militiamen fought and killed US and Iraqi soldiers.
  — Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 10 June 2018
• Some of these go to ex-militiamen, but no more than about 10%—the park does not want young men to see taking up arms as a shortcut to a salary.
  — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
• The militiamen pulled off his flight suit, boots and socks, leaving him in his T-shirt and underwear.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• In one of them, a Serbian militiaman can be seen kicking the head of a dying Bosnian woman.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• The militiamen held their ground briefly, fired their weapons, and then—as Morgan had commanded—left their posts and got out of harm’s way.
  — Alan Pell Crawford, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• The dusty construction guy made common cause with the lawyer licking his paws and the bearded militiaman with a maggot in his brainstem.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2021
• The militiamen forced the convoy’s Red Cross and Red Crescent escorts to leave the area, witnesses said, meaning the escorts did not see the whole episode.
  — Anne Barnard, Hwaida Saad and Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2016
• The militiamen who fought the first battle of that war began a new epoch in human history.
  — Mark G. Spencer, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• The Bundy ranch standoff suggests that the militiamen never went away.
  — Max Strasser, Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2014
• He and four other militiamen are waiting to load a flatbed truck with the remains of vehicles seized from ISIS.
  — TIME.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The park is threatened by hundreds of militiamen who poach its animals, and by farmers who sneak in to plant crops.
  — The Economist, 2 Apr. 2020
• Have any of the heavily armed militiamen harmed anyone with their weapons?
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The most sadistic guards were often the Donbas militiamen.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Iran is one of Assad’s strongest backers and has sent thousands of troops and allied militiamen to support his forces.
  — Time, 10 Apr. 2018
• Iran is one of Assad's strongest backers and has sent thousands of troops and allied militiamen to support his forces.
  — Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• The dance circle grew, as women, men and militiamen guarding the daytime party joined.
  — Sarah El Deeb, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• The dance circle grew, as women, men, and militiamen guarding the daytime party joined.
  — Sarah El Deeb, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
• The three men skipped bail, but 40 armed militiamen showed up at court in their place, publicly threatening to kill any police officer who tried to take away their guns.
  — Daniel Southwell, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
• The siren alerting residents to incoming fire goes off almost at the same instant as the impact, so close is the town to the Lebanese border and Hezbollah militiamen.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
• An ethnic armed group allied with the KIA in neighbouring Shan state recently staged a bloody attack on a casino run by militiamen close to the army.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• On June 10, at least 35 Dogon civilians were shot and burned alive in their village by suspected Fulani militiamen, only a few miles away from the cliffs.
  — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, Time, 18 June 2019
• Iraqi soldiers and militiamen, flying Iraqi flags and green Shia standards, could march into town just as Kurds are preparing to vote.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
• Iran has advisers and experts and has backed tens of thousands of militiamen who are fighting alongside Assad’s forces in the civil war.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• The escape was harrowing, with Besnik carrying a pistol to pass as a Serbian militiaman.
  — WSJ, 31 July 2017
• Lendu militiamen, some wearing human livers round their necks, poured into the town.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• In Libya, Italy is accused of bribing some of the same militiamen who have long profited from the European smuggling trade — many of whom are also accused of war crimes.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• In this latest phase of fighting, ISIS militiamen have often herded residents—those who have stayed—into a building, then put a sniper up on the roof.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 8 May 2017
• When the marauding militiamen arrived at her door on that morning in April 1994, Florence Mukantaganda knew there was nowhere to run.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2024
• The incident became a rallying cry for right-wing activists and militiamen, who see themselves as locked in conflict with a tyrannical regime.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024