How to Use warlord in a Sentence

warlord

noun

• And that led to the wives being stolen from the warlord.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
• Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord Jasper tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• The warlord had abandoned his men and fled to Pakistan.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Khan didn’t need to puff up his arms or chest to play the part of an enforcer to a medieval warlord.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
• More than mere warlords threaten the ragged survivors of this world.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2017
• In 2015, Elba played the fierce and troubled warlord in Beasts of No Nation.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Sep. 2023
• Al-Bashir remains at large, as does Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who was among the first rebels charged by the court in 2005.
  — Matthew Lee, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• Out of the ashes, local warlords and strongmen would rise up.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
  — Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
• In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
• Some, though, were taken to the nearest large city and pressed into service of the warlord or king who had won them.
  — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• Syria was plunged into chaos, and Jerash was briefly ruled by warlords.
  — Eva Tobalina, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
• In the future, most of Earth is covered by water and the only land is controlled by a warlord and his army of sharks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Prigozhin is no Lenin, but a warlord with pettier aims.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Watch the Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who like Prigozhin runs a large private militia.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
• Instead, the warlord repaid the debt by handing over a Boeing 727.
  — Fahim Abed, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The government is receding and the warlords are rising, but the two are in conflict.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Evmolpus was a Thracian king and famous warlord who could talk with the gods.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
• The mayor, the latest in a long line of feline-loving warlords, has banished all dogs to Trash Island.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The lawsuit also names Khalifa Hifter, the Libyan warlord who brought the mercenary group to Libya in 2018.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• What’s next for the caterer turned warlord is uncertain.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
• With the arrival of a rebel warlord (Emeka Amakeze) on the run from his violent past, and the death of Mama Efe, a new status quo emerges in the village.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• Macbeth The titular Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to the throne in Shakespeare's tragedy.
  — Matt Cooper, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Russians shuttled warlords to peace talks with the government, helping lead to a deal with more than a dozen armed groups to stop fighting.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• Those warlords fought for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
  — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
• The former warlord was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the appeals court at the ICC last week.
  — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 13 June 2018
• Wehrey crisscrossed the country, flew back and forth along the coast, and sat with warlords and Islamists of uncertain intentions.
  — Dexter Filkins, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• As his wife, son and country are threatened by the tyrannical Austrian King and his warlords, a once peaceful hunter and former crusader, William Tell, leads his people to rebellion.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2024
• Among the nominees is Hiroyuki Sanada, recognized for his lead performance as the cunning warlord Yoshii Toranaga.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024