How to Use militia in a Sentence

militia

noun

• Rebels and militias crisscross the desert shared by the two nations.
  — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
• All belonged to the Oath Keepers militia or the rightwing Proud Boys.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
• But as the ranks of the civilian militias have swelled over the past 18 months, so have reports of mass killings.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
  — Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• Those groups include both the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq and Syria.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• There are thoughts that was in a local militia and never left the city.
  — al, 19 Feb. 2023
• The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Both Israel and the militias avoided causing the kind of damage that could lead to all-out war.
  — Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• The pro-independence groups and militias that sprung up amid the war had no such rules.
  — Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• The past months have seen an uptick in deadly militia clashes.
  — Rami Musa, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• The militia has said the attacks are in response to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
• Hemedti joined the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia that fought against the Darfur rebels.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• When Russian forces floundered, the private militia known as the Wagner Group took over the fight.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
• An armed militia fires at will to shut down a TV news network in Washington.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• The real powers were the party bosses, the oligarchs, and the militia leaders.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
• At least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Five died in skirmishes, and badly outgunned, the militia on 25 March agreed to a Russian demand to leave the city.
  — Byrichard Stone, science.org, 8 Dec. 2022
• Hezbollah is one of Iran’s proxy militias and has threatened to open a second front against Israel.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• In 2022, Ma Htet Htet joined a militia fighting in central Myanmar.
  — Paul Mozur Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• Hundreds of Shiite men eager to take up arms against the Taliban flocked to his new resistance militia in the spring.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• The time from his arrest to execution, on charges of killing two plainclothes Basij militia, spanned less than a month.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp.
  — Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023
• Jason van Tatenhove was once the media spokesman for the militia group known as the Oath Keepers, which played a crucial role in the uprising.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• In this case, the baker was a man named Matt Keepers, who testified at trial that Fox reached out to him and asked him to join his militia and build a bomb.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2022
• Israeli strikes in Lebanon risk drawing Lebanon's Hezbollah militia into the fighting, which could lead to war.
  — Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Millions of Arabs whose lives have been shattered by the militia want a different future.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
• This is a – an Islamic militia that has risen up and has continued and now is successfully toppling the Assad regime.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2024
• The next steps in Hama will determine whether opposition forces can consolidate their gains or if Assad's forces, backed by allied militias, can regroup to push them back.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024