How to Use combatant in a Sentence

combatant

noun

• Britain was a main combatant in World War II.
• The combatants include a gunslinger with big sideburns, a sentient cactus, and a girl in a bear suit.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• In addition to the remarkable footage, the film draws on the testimony of combatants.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Lasing attacks appear to be an easy way for enemy combatants to harass and try to distract military pilots, both in planes and helicopters.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• However, the current plan still falls short of meeting the global requirements of combatant commanders, Navy leaders say.
  — Kris Osborn, Fox News, 13 July 2018
• The tally does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
  — Filip Timotija, The Hill, 30 Nov. 2024
• His death, like those of the other men who were killed on the war’s last couple of days, has often been described as futile, because the combatant countries had by then agreed on a precise timetable for the cessation of fighting.
  — Brendan Simms, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2018
• The regime considers them useful propaganda tools--returning the remains makes the regime look good and can be used to reward the former UN combatant countries.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
• During the brawl, one of the combatants pulled a knife and stabbed the other two, then fled.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Despite a driving, chilly rain, the combatants lived up to the hype.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Women from that class, the Navy said, were the first to serve on combatant ships and aircraft.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
• The first round was pretty back-and-forth between the combatants.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And the fortresses that dot the earth are where the biggest, scariest combatants await.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 30 June 2019
• The chicken wars are on, and the latest combatant to enter the fray is a giant.
  — Dan Carson, Houston Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2019
• As the war entered its 15th year, the United States faced a new combatant in Afghanistan and the old fault lines began to shift.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• One by one the combatants were downed, then picked up and revived by a girl’s giant hand.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Competitive combatant The rules of the game this year have been tweaked as well.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
• The campaign could cost the lives of thousands of combatants and thousands of civilians as well.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Israel said that all those who had been killed so far were combatants.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Some reporters were among those who tried to restrain the two combatants.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2024
• Vargas, a hand-to-hand combatant of that war, is taking me on a tour of his biggest busts in San Diego.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• The Russians have 21 ships in the Black Sea 12 of them are surface combatant ships and nine of them are amphibious ships.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• But while the prize may be minor, the combatants are certainly not.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 8 July 2024
• In declaring war on the upper class that made him, Carlson joined a long, volatile lineage of combatants against the élite.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• Somerville said Martinez got into a fight at the motel, and Bradford shot the other combatant in the thigh.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021
• The deaths included those of combatants and civilians caught in the crossfire.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• Jones is not the only American combatant to have died in Ukraine.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
• Social media users shared memes and pointed out that the combatants were split along racial lines.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Navy is tight-lipped about what new technologies will be fitted to the large surface combatant.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2020
• Health officials in Gaza do not distinguish between civilians and combatants in tracking deaths.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024