How to Use militancy in a Sentence

militancy

noun

• So many of them were born from the militancy or utopianism of the 1960s.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
• And that’s sparked a new militancy in many of those workers.
  — Sarah Jaffe, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
• But where that militancy builds, the forces of capital are there to meet it.
  — Luis Feliz Leon, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
• Poverty and fury have made the camp a hotbed of militancy.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Oregon is a powder keg of militancy right now, and its fuse is now burning bright and hot.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Parks went on to inspire countless others and energize the movement, which would evolve in the 1960s to more militancy and the birth of the Black Panthers.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 4 Jan. 2022
• There’s been a lot of talk in the national media and elsewhere this fall about the new worker militancy.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2021
• The attack is seen by many as a turning point in Pakistan's war against militancy.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 15 June 2018
• The city of Jenin has been a hotbed of Palestinian militancy.
  — Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• The anthems of Sadr’s years-long militancy against U.S. forces also blared.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
• In her opinion, my anti-screen militancy was going to drive all three of us crazy.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• By the time of the fund-raiser, the distance between the two men had been widened by Baldwin’s sympathies for the militancy of the younger generation.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
• Such is the unrepentant militancy of the right’s voter fraud witch hunt.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• Since the late 1980s, separatist militancy has added to the tourism industry’s woes.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 22 Oct. 2019
• At the same time, the last several years have seen an upsurge in labor militancy that few would have predicted in 1996.
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• If this weekend marked a breakthrough, perhaps the best symbol was the increased militancy -- in their speeches, on their signs, etc.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
• At the height of the militancy, rebels reduced Nigeria’s oil production by a quarter.
  — Conor Gaffey, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2016
• The Hindu exodus from Kashmir in the 1990s came during the peak of the separatist militancy.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• What Dworkin brought to the scene was, depending on your view of her rhetoric, either a bolder militancy or a greater tendentiousness.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Far-right members of the government have called for a long-term occupation of the city, which has emerged over the past year as a hotbed for Palestinian militancy.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• That presence, which could be reduced, currently includes about 1,000 troops and a large drone base in the north of the country at Agadez that have been part of efforts to counter Islamist militancy in the region.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• But Utah has all but lost its tradition of labor militancy in recent decades and union membership has steadily declined in the U.S. since the 1950s.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2022
• In the trial, Rhodes’s lawyers will attempt to sway the jury using an argument rooted in Rhodes’s version of right-wing militancy.
  — Mike Giglio, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2022
• Despite the militancy of its devoted fans, Syfy had canceled The Expanse.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• For over three decades, Khamenei has used diplomacy and militancy to achieve his foreign policy goals.
  — Saeid Golkar, Time, 16 June 2021
• Is this sometimes tongue-and-cheek or knee-jerk militancy a disguise for the pursuit of the American dream, which is exported worldwide by way of Black music?
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The raids, carried out in Nablus, Jenin and other West Bank cities considered hotbeds of militancy, have been violent.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Seemingly alarmed by the increase in militancy and the stockpiling of weapons in the camp, Israel dramatically stepped up its raids into the camp in 2022.
  — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• Now, France has become a scapegoat of sorts in a region buckling under the forces of poverty, climate change and surging Islamist militancy.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Burkinabe military is floundering in the face of a surge in Islamist militancy, with renegade factions controlling more than half the country.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024