How to Use militant in a Sentence

militant

adjective
  • The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • Both of the militant groups are backed and funded by Iran.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The Taliban is a jihadist militant group that ran Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • So much of this was due to the militant precedent that Fear of a Black Planet set.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The other is one of the world's strictest Islamist militant groups.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • The militant group now holds at least one-third of Afghanistan’s 364 districts.
    — Sher Jan Ahmadzai, The Conversation, 22 July 2021
  • The militant group’s flag is hoisted above homes and shops.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • And Israel had just ended a brief war with Hamas, the militant group that holds sway in the Gaza Strip.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2021
  • The militant group is vowing to respond to U.S.-led strikes.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The events set off an 11-day war between Israel and the militant group Hamas that rules Gaza.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The militant group has said that the move would affect the remaining hostages as well.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The militant group is still holding 50 hostages, less than half of them believed to be alive.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
  • Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, praised the attack.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The rooms are adorned with tiles more fitting of a home than the underground compound of a militant group.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • All were members of militant groups the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers who were charged with sedition.
    — Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This in part led to a short air battle between Israel and a militant group in the Gaza Strip this month.
    — Miriam Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Six of those who died there were members of the Palestinian militant group, which emerged in the city last year.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
  • That is where the militant group is holding more than 200 hostages, Israel says.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • In the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the ruling Hamas militant group issued a veiled threat following the Nablus raid.
    — Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Instead the new regime is solely made up by members of the militant group.
    — Henry Austin, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The nation is still reeling from the militant group's cross-border raid last year that started the war.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The militant group’s move has drawn condemnations from the US and the European Union.
    — Shafi Kakar, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • Hamas has formed a task force to confront them that the militant group says has killed around two dozen gang members in recent months.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the most disruptive attacks have been staged by the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen and has ties to Iran.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Loomer pointed to Qatar's ties with the militant groups Hamas and Hezbelloh.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Israel and the United States accuse the Hamas militant group of stealing aid.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 June 2025
  • The militant group hoped the event would revive its battered image.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The Israeli leader has repeatedly said Hamas must be disarmed, but it is thought that this is something that the militant group has so far refused to discuss.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
  • Israel’s military has launched thousands of attacks targeting any move by the Lebanese militant group to restore its capabilities.
    — Nabih Bulos foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025

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