How to Use warlord in a Sentence

warlord

noun
  • And that led to the wives being stolen from the warlord.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord Jasper tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The warlord had abandoned his men and fled to Pakistan.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Khan didn’t need to puff up his arms or chest to play the part of an enforcer to a medieval warlord.
    Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
  • More than mere warlords threaten the ragged survivors of this world.
    New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • In 2015, Elba played the fierce and troubled warlord in Beasts of No Nation.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Al-Bashir remains at large, as does Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who was among the first rebels charged by the court in 2005.
    Matthew Lee, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Out of the ashes, local warlords and strongmen would rise up.
    Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
    Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Some, though, were taken to the nearest large city and pressed into service of the warlord or king who had won them.
    Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Syria was plunged into chaos, and Jerash was briefly ruled by warlords.
    Eva Tobalina, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In the future, most of Earth is covered by water and the only land is controlled by a warlord and his army of sharks.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Prigozhin is no Lenin, but a warlord with pettier aims.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Watch the Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who like Prigozhin runs a large private militia.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • Instead, the warlord repaid the debt by handing over a Boeing 727.
    Fahim Abed, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The government is receding and the warlords are rising, but the two are in conflict.
    Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Evmolpus was a Thracian king and famous warlord who could talk with the gods.
    Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
  • The mayor, the latest in a long line of feline-loving warlords, has banished all dogs to Trash Island.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The lawsuit also names Khalifa Hifter, the Libyan warlord who brought the mercenary group to Libya in 2018.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • What’s next for the caterer turned warlord is uncertain.
    Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
  • With the arrival of a rebel warlord (Emeka Amakeze) on the run from his violent past, and the death of Mama Efe, a new status quo emerges in the village.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Macbeth The titular Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to the throne in Shakespeare's tragedy.
    Matt Cooper, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Russians shuttled warlords to peace talks with the government, helping lead to a deal with more than a dozen armed groups to stop fighting.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
    Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Those warlords fought for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
    Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The former warlord was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the appeals court at the ICC last week.
    Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • Wehrey crisscrossed the country, flew back and forth along the coast, and sat with warlords and Islamists of uncertain intentions.
    Dexter Filkins, New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • Kandahar’s rival warlords carved up the province with a patchwork of checkpoints, where robbery and rape were common.
    Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • His latest mission: team up with freedom fighter Drea (Kurylenko) to recover the Mona Lisa before an unhinged warlord gets there first.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 May 2024

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