How to Use terrorism in a Sentence

terrorism

noun

• They have been arrested for acts of terrorism.
• Pakistan since 9/11 is a front line in the struggle against terrorism.
  — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
• The terrorism threat Pakistan faces is one of its own making.
  — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
• This is a party that can condemn terrorism and call for peace.
  — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
• Police have charged a 16-year-old with a terrorism offense in the church attack.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2024
• Moscow has called the attack an act of terrorism that left two people dead.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• This is terrorism and Israel has the right to defend itself.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• They were charged with terrorism and face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Olympics organizers say the potential for terrorism was stitched into the plan for the Games from the start.
  — Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• And if that’s the case, this will be yet another unpunished case of racial terrorism.
  — Stefani Reynolds, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• The crash wasn’t believed to be terrorism, and the driver was taken into custody.
  — Pan Pylas, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Just as the purpose of terrorism is terror, so the purpose of Twitter is tweeting.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• This being a world where terrorism is all too common, some of those who’d come to see the wreckage had wondered whether the bridge might have been attacked.
  — Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Last month, the police arrested a party member and charged him with terrorism in connection with the burning of the truck and the flag.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The arrests come amid a recent uptick in terrorism and violence in France not related to the Olympics.
  — Tom Winter, NBC News, 27 July 2024
• Blaming victims of terrorism for their own deaths is wrong.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• While the first two seasons dealt with terrorism coming to Europe, Season 3 takes the viewer to its place of origin.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• Beforehand, the overwhelming narrative was that Parisians did not want this event, the Seine was still too dirty, and the risk of terrorism loomed too large.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The paymaster and armorer of Hezbollah and Hamas is Iran, the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terrorism.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• The lesson: Don’t give billions of dollars to people who fund terrorism.
  — WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
• That is not because the threat of terrorism disappeared.
  — Jonah Bader, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
• The sequel series documents the fallout of the siege, from the personal hardships faced by survivors to the rise of terrorism.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
• The controversy over the pope’s ‘terrorism’ assertion The pope’s comment set off a firestorm.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Swamy may have been the oldest person ever charged with terrorism in India.
  — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 2 June 2024
• Rico Krieger, a German man who had been sentenced to death in Belarus on terrorism and other charges.
  — Jacob Knutson, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
• Police said they each were charged with one count of domestic terrorism.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• Pick at the stories and legends built up over the long years of the global war on terrorism, and their utter falsity eventually comes to the fore.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• Niger remains a key nation in the fight against Islamic terrorism and in securing peace in the region.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, faces multiple charges that include unlawful discharge, shooting at a non-residential structure, terrorism and criminal damage.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
• This is particularly important, given that Israel’s killing of Ismail Haniyeh—who, even with his clear culpability for acts of terrorism, was advocating a cease-fire—may have weakened other proponents of negotiation within Hamas.
  — Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024