How to Use freedom fighter in a Sentence

freedom fighter

noun
  • The team is led by freedom fighter Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay).
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • Wright is a storyteller who sings with the gusto of a freedom fighter.
    Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
  • On Monday, April 2, the world lost a fierce freedom fighter, one who held her head, and her fists, high, in the face of oppression – for decades.
    Essence.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The bridge was then blessed, and the freedom fighter it was named for was recalled as an inspiration.
    Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
  • My book is about two people — a black former freedom fighter and a white lawyer who fought for the apartheid regime in the most elite army unit — confronting those changes.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 June 2018
  • For all of this, King became that much more of a hero to freedom fighters and dissenters across many continents.
    Jason Sokol, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
  • At their cores, both Dead and Thrones have been distilled into a triad of fascists vs. freedom fighters vs. the undead.
    John Walters, Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The charismatic freedom fighter, who was the chair of the Party’s Illinois chapter, would have turned 74 today.
    Malaika Jabali, Essence, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The true story of a feminist icon in India who was a fearless freedom fighter.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2019
  • When does a freedom fighter become a terrorist, and who gets to decide?
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 6 July 2022
  • Someone with a new vision for America, a freedom fighter, a fresh face and a grassroots hero.
    Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • No matter which biopic wins, the loser will be Andrew de Moray, the Scottish freedom fighter that both movies ignore.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
  • But what has been noted so far appears to match historic descriptions of the freedom fighter’s fort.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • Jan Matejko is the national painter of Poland, an artist, a patriot, a freedom fighter.
    Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • Directed by Shoojit Sircar, the film shows some portions of the freedom fighter's life.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • One of the leaders of that mission is a man named Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a scruffy, orphaned thief turned freedom fighter.
    Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In his native country, Mr. Ibrahim has long been known as both pioneer and freedom fighter.
    Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • As the old saying goes, your evil terrorist is my heroic freedom fighter.
    Robert Darnton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The event included the performance of an original play that Crenshaw penned about the freedom fighter.
    Donna Owens, Essence.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • And The Independent answered us in ’93 that Osama bin Laden was a freedom fighter practicing free speech.
    Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • It is well documented that Dooky Chase’s nourished the stomachs of freedom fighters.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al.com, 7 June 2019
  • One woman is a fugitive freedom fighter, the other an outcast bounty hunter.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • This backfired in the case of Gandhi; the portrayal of the iconic Indian freedom fighter as a deranged horny teenager did not go over well in India.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 July 2020
  • As a British ally, Japan may seem like an odd safe haven for a Bengali freedom fighter fleeing British retribution.
    Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 9 May 2020
  • In 1881, Frederick Douglass paid tribute to the freedom fighter.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Madikizela-Mandela had been an iconic freedom fighter in her own right, a stoic and heroic figure.
    Toby Shapshak, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The Yeshiva Maccabees, named for the ancient band of freedom fighters, are unfamiliar with this level of spotlight.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The term itself, which looks backward as well as forward, can be used to describe the Black freedom fighters who saw beyond the limitations of enslavement.
    Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by freedom fighters and appear in a hostage video that goes viral.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2023
  • He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
    Wired, 22 Sep. 2019

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