How to Use militiaman in a Sentence

militiaman

noun
  • Women and girls as young as 14 have been raped by the RSF militiamen.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • 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.
    Bassem Mroue, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Congress added Afghanistan to the list after the administration repatriated a former Afghan militiaman in 2022, with the help of Qatar.
    Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • 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

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