How to Use terrorist in a Sentence

terrorist

1 of 2 noun
  • In 2009 a terrorist threw a bomb at a group of tourists in the medieval market of Khan el-Khalili.
    Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In one, a terrorist is standing on an Israeli man's chest and shoots him point-blank in the face.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The man in question was not a terrorist, at least not in the conventional sense.
    Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • The sources added that, since the attack in Moscow, terrorists are trying to maintain a climate of alarm and fear.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • If one of the Hamas terrorists had been able to penetrate the perimeter, those people would have been slaughtered.
    TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • More than 260 of the victims were pursued by the terrorists and gunned down at a music festival.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Biden was also met with a heckler toward the start of the speech, who was calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Yarden, who was running alone, grew exhausted after a while, fell to the ground, and tried to fool the Hamas terrorists who found her by playing dead.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Also, in its reports, Hamas does not properly break down which of the deaths were of terrorists and which were of civilians.
    The Editors, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
  • We were told then in 2014 not to ask for weapons, negotiate with terrorists, and do reforms.
    Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 12 July 2023
  • One, that foreign terrorists don't seek to travel to the homeland to inflict damage here.
    CBS News, 14 Apr. 2024
  • His remarks focused on what Israel shouldn’t do in Gaza rather than on how to defeat the Hamas terrorists who are still holding around 140 hostages.
    Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
  • If the conflict ends in stalemate or cease-fire, the terrorists will have gotten away with mass atrocities on Israeli soil.
    Michael Oren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
  • So does this mean that Doc might die not at the hands of terrorists but by the man who helped unleash nuclear power — J. Robert Oppenheimer?
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • When the terrorists attacked, Bob suited back up and, like so many brave first responders, raced toward the danger to save and search for others.
    Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The United States should stand with our allies when they are threatened by dictators and terrorists.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The first versions of Brown men in TV or film were either terrorists or the incapable and weak comedic relief characters.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Honorary consuls tied to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah have stood accused of moving drugs and money.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Israel has launched surgical-style urban warfare to root out Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Israel says the incursions target terrorists who have attacked Israelis in the past or are planning to do so.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The next day, a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed seven people in east Jerusalem during the Jewish sabbath.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, the Israeli military was unprepared as terrorists streamed out of the Gaza Strip.
    Adam Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The passengers aboard fought back against the terrorists, subsequently causing the plane to crash in the field in Pennsylvania.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The country will be forced to free terrorists held in Israeli prisons, including people with the blood of Israeli civilians on their hands.
    Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Russia is enough a part of the global economy that a U.S. terrorist designation could cause damage around the world.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • With access to source codes and weights, terrorists or scammers can give AI systems destructive drives.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But many were shocked to see sympathy for — or agreement with — the terrorist who masterminded 9/11.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The United States must stand with Israel against the terrorists who attacked innocent Israelis.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Its members are terrorists who entered Israel, killed 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
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terrorist

2 of 2 adjective
  • That means users on Threads won’t be able to praise terrorist or hate groups, buy firearms or make threats against people or groups.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
  • My daughter was taken as a hostage by a terrorist group.
    NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • As for what Putin does now, the 2004 terrorist attack in Beslan may be instructive.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
  • And there is this famous area called the area of the three borders, famously known for the heavy concentration of terrorist groups.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Following the Moscow attack, France – which hosts the Olympics this year – raised the terrorist threat level to the maximum.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Israel has accused the agency of having ties to Hamas and its Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • There were children forced to appear in hostage videos, and others forced to watch gruesome footage of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
    Russell Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Countless terrorist plans have been thwarted, but the world knows only about those that succeed.
    Vijay Pande, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • One hundred seventy two people on the terrorist watch [list] have come on your watch.
    Samuel Schaffer, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The devices were filled with nails, screws, and pellets, along with materials to make more bombs, and books about terrorist bombings.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • New York's offer of housing for survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack just steps away from Ground Zero has left some upset and others pleased by the news.
    Kristine Parks, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Cross burnings were tools for intimidation by the racist anti-Black terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, throughout the 1900s.
    Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The terrorist group and staff at the hospital denied Hamas is using the hospital as a command center.
    Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Khalife was awaiting trial on terror charges for sparking a false threat of a terrorist attack by planting fake bombs on the base.
    USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But Jihadist inspired terrorist attacks are at an all-time high.
    ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Egypt considers the Brotherhood a terrorist group and accused both Qatar and Al Jazeera of supporting it.
    Josef Federman, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • And a lot of this is, is women running with their children to keep their sons from being recruited into terrorist groups.
    ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Some in Congress have sought to brand the group a foreign terrorist organization.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The stalking and terrorist threat charges were reduced to misdemeanors in November 1998.
    Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Critics of a new initiative in the House and elsewhere, however, view it as liable to empower terrorist groups.
    Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 17 July 2023
  • This essay was updated to address the terrorist attack that took place outside Moscow on March 22.
    Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Of those, 37% either plotted or followed through with a deadly terrorist attack.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The articles described the network as a terrorist-recruiting branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Each of the four suspects was arrested and charged with committing a group terrorist attack resulting in the death of others, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
    Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The blast was among the deadliest terrorist attacks in months in Pakistan, where some militant groups operating along the border with Afghanistan have become more active over the past year.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • The answer could be to keep Palestinians in a state of further oppression to prevent them from committing terrorist attacks.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Kenya has suffered terrorist attacks in recent years (though, of course, so have Paris and London), and the American government continues to warn against travel to Lamu.
    Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2023
  • On some level, the song was Keith’s response not only to 9/11, but to a more directly personal tragedy: the death of his own father, whose reaction to the terrorist attacks Keith imagines.
    Nadine Smith, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union.
    Daniel Cancel, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The funding, training, weapons, and other support Iran provides Hezbollah support complex and heinous terrorist attacks like these.
    Jack Carr, Fox News, 18 July 2023

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