How to Use shock troops in a Sentence
shock troops
plural noun-
The shock troops for this effort are also in place, and often on our streets.
—John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
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The thought of robotic shock troops converging from the ground and the sky is a strong impetus to give peace a chance.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2015
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Many of the eight hundred or so shock troops who invaded the Capitol were drawn from their ranks.
—Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
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Stormtroopers wear Totenkopf skulls for helmets and borrow their name from Hitler’s shock troops.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
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For a long time, Hindu extremists have hated this school, and on Jan. 5, the shock troops arrived.
—New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
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The president’s all-too-late video calling off his shock troops was little more than a duck for cover.
—WSJ, 29 July 2022
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Storms like these, the shock troops of the climate crisis, are bringing with them unprecedented rates of coastal erosion.
—Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
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Even if the politicians want calm, the media and entertainment shock troops the Democrats employed against Trump will ensure that the pot will be kept boiling.
—Jonathan Tobin, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
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If Sanders does indeed win the nomination, these kids who aren’t all right will be the shock troops of his revolution.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
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They were deployed as shock troops, to claw back scraps of territory in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
—Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
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The insurrectionists were his people, his shock troops, there to do his bidding.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
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In this section, one discovers that the Orcs, the malevolent shock troops of Middle-earth’s dark forces, were vampiric.
—Bradley J. Birzer, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
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German shock troops also were hurled against Allied troops rushing ashore from landing barges, the broadcast said.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2018
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Journalists were the shock troops allowing the nation to experience the storm from the comfort of their living rooms.
—David Bauder, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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Imagine Vladimir Putin has sent his shock troops to level your hometown, to occupy your high school and drop a missile on the hospital where you were born.
—Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
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Paratroopers and other shock troops will parachute or fly alongside their ISVs and then ride them to their objective.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2020
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That tactic was inherited by black students who formed the shock troops of Martin Luther King’s crusade.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
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With Bloomberg backing them, the shock troops of the food-and-drink police are undaunted by their setbacks and are seeking to impose similar soda taxes elsewhere.
—Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
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While the Emperor uses his deadly shock troops, the Sardaukar, to maintain order, rival houses jockey for power behind the scenes.
—Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2021
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The shock troops of the Democrats in 2020 impose their brand of intimidation on liberal cities run by liberal Democratic mayors.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2020
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During the civil-rights movement, police were the shock troops for the massive resistance of the white political establishment in the American South.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
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One of the outcomes of the fintech revolution will be to unbundle and unlock value as the shock troops of big tech breach the redoubts of consolidated, utility banking.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 28 June 2021
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Turkey has used Syrian opposition fighters, which include former jihadists, as shock troops for much of the fighting.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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With Bannon as his wingman, his aim is to blow up the Republican Party, purge it of a feckless and tired Establishment, and remake it with his own shock troops into a nativist and nationalist regime.
—Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Oct. 2017
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Unless the barrier is breached by injury, autoimmune disease or catastrophic infection, rarely does a T cell, a B cell or any of the immune system’s other shock troops get through.
—Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
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The name conjured high-minded ideals of representative democracy, but this was a true fascist state, complete with shock troops, slavery, and degeneracy laws.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
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During months-long campaigns, their army, which featured a corps of women warriors who served as shock troops, overran towns and villages, horrifically murdering some people as a tactic to get others to submit.
—David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
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According to this way of thinking, the U.S. military provides the shock troops of global capital, in a conspiracy to ensure the profitability of U.S. corporations.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
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But unless shock troops succeeded in seizing a Taiwanese port without seriously damaging it, these merchantmen would need some way of offloading their passengers and cargo.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
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Issued late last week, Biden’s latest executive order will empower ideological shock troops to distort federal policy across the board.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
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