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
• After the police failed to stop the marchers — many of them armed — paramilitary troops were called in to quell the violence.
  — Salman Masood, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The authorities worked with paramilitary groups to crush the JVP.
  — Vincent Bevins, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2021
• Soon, the paramilitary, the vehicles, formed a circling prison wall for Kanye West, many layers deep.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The superhero team started as the paramilitary wing of Xavier's mutant school, and filled its ranks with top-notch students.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• On the other is a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces.
  — An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• Rhodes, 56, of Granbury Texas, was charged with 10 other members of the paramilitary group in the alleged attempt to overthrow the government.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• At least four members and associates of the Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, have pleaded guilty.
  — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
• Fourteen people were rescued, said Vivek Kumar Pandey, a spokesman for a paramilitary force involved in the search.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The Oath Keepers never were a real paramilitary group in the sense of a top-down coordinated force that answers to Rhodes.
  — Hannah Allam, Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Murphy eventually became a Green Beret while Parke was a paramilitary contractor.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025