How to Use combatant in a Sentence

combatant

noun

• Britain was a main combatant in World War II.
• 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
• But like two combatants in a war, all the civilians can do is shake their heads.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• 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
• Three of the hostages released on Sunday are Thais who had been working in Israel when the Hamas combatants crossed the border.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• At the Alamo, Tejanos entered to defend it, to support combatants or to take refuge.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 3 Mar. 2020
• Israel said that all of the Palestinians who were killed were combatants.
  — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• The fact that these cadets were working for the Hamas-run government does not turn them into combatants.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• The entire team would gather around the combatants to take sides, with the winner swarmed by joyous teammates.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• Trapped in Sudan’s brutal civil war, a young woman chose to work in a clinic on the front line, treating civilians and combatants.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
• The officials do not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their death tolls.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025