How to Use paramilitary in a Sentence

paramilitary

adjective

• Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.
• As in the game, the city is full of paramilitary forces.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
• Two paramilitary soldiers stand guard at the entrance of Press Colony in the city.
  — Nusrat Sidiq, NBC News, 26 June 2022
• She and her daughters were displaced from her home by paramilitary groups about 13 years ago.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• But the two generals could not agree on a timeline for bringing the paramilitary forces under the umbrella of the army.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• He also is accused of selling arms on the black market to al-Qaeda, the Taliban and paramilitary groups across Africa.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• He had been accused of stabbing two members of the paramilitary Basij militia, which is leading the crackdown.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The series looked at the ties between the paramilitary groups that terrorized Northern Ireland during the Troubles and the present-day drug trade.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• Shchastia was held by the rebels for less than three months, until it was retaken by a pro-Ukrainian paramilitary group.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
• The rivals this time — the national army and the paramilitary force that once did its bidding — had seized power together in 2021, but fell out over how to merge their armies.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• But even if some officers do defect, the Guard and paramilitary Basij force will most likely keep up the fight to preserve the ruling system.
  — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• Also making the list from the show is Aaron Moten, who portrays an aspiring knight of a paramilitary order.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• Sudan has been rocked by fighting for more than two months as the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battle for control of the country.
  — Jack Jeffery, ajc, 19 June 2023
• Hestia, who lives in the border state of Maryland, has to figure out how to fend for herself when her husband abandons her to join a pro-Union paramilitary group.
  — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• She high-fived and fist-bumped and took a ton of photos of the two men in red berets and paramilitary pants, the whoosh of memories bringing the 61-year-old back to hard days in New York, back to being a teenager and being scared.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• Now it was controlled by fighters from the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary force battling Sudan’s national army for control of the city, and the country.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 14 June 2024
• Russian state media showed footage of a raid said to have been carried out on the mansion and offices of Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 8 July 2023
• Over time, the conflict grew to feature a wider array of armed groups including leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary groups and drug cartels.
  — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Its members wear a signature red beret and often dress in paramilitary garb.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces on April 15.
  — Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Besides land mines, the two greatest dangers to hikers in the Kurdistan Region are airstrikes and paramilitary groups.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Lang is one of a number of Americans who have reportedly either traveled to Ukraine over the last decade to fight for far-right paramilitary groups or have sought to do so.
  — Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2022
• Millions of people have been displaced as the ruling Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group that once supported them, fight for control of the country.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
• Earlier in the full-scale war, women had taken combat roles in paramilitary groups or by skirting rules.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The killing of the officer in the storied Carabinieri paramilitary police corps shocked Italy, and the 35-year-old Cerciello Rega was mourned as a national hero.
  — Paolo Santalucia, arkansasonline.com, 4 July 2024
• When a country is bleeding, [Russia] comes along with paramilitary groups.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• All 10 people were killed, including Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• One posted information about this, purportedly, and later on it got picked up by a neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe, the founder of which has been in the news for trying to buy land to start paramilitary training camps in Maine.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
• An officer with the Nepali paramilitary police in Hilsa said that last year his commander asked the Chinese to retreat from an area that the 1960s official map indicated was not Chinese land.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024