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
• 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
• 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
• Stormtroopers wear Totenkopf skulls for helmets and borrow their name from Hitler’s shock troops.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• For a long time, Hindu extremists have hated this school, and on Jan. 5, the shock troops arrived.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
• The president’s all-too-late video calling off his shock troops was little more than a duck for cover.
  — WSJ, 29 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• They were deployed as shock troops, to claw back scraps of territory in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• The insurrectionists were his people, his shock troops, there to do his bidding.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• German shock troops also were hurled against Allied troops rushing ashore from landing barges, the broadcast said.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Turkey has used Syrian opposition fighters, which include former jihadists, as shock troops for much of the fighting.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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