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
  • And what about all the other innocents whom the militia tried to kill, like Kayce’s wife and son?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Those three have several links to the far-right Proud Boys militia.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Trump commuted the sentence of Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • They are attacked by militia, and a wounded Matty ends up stranded in the DMZ.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The Reffitts hosted a mixer for the local branch of the militia at their home, with brisket, potato salad, and beer.
    — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The tribe remained there until 1706, when the local militia forcibly removed them once again.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 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
  • By the time the British troops left Boston around 2 a.m., Melvin had already rung the town’s bells, mobilizing the local militia.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The country split, with rival administrations in the east and west backed by a web of rogue militias.
    — Renata Brito, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • Not just in supplying missiles to the Houthis but other weapons to proxy militias and Shahed drone parts for use against Ukraine.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • 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

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