How to Use anarchist in a Sentence

anarchist

noun
  • One man brought to his side con men, anarchists, crooks and racists.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024
  • In real life, an anarchist stabbed her in the heart with a nail file.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But these were just the young, anarchist-y activist circles of my youth.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But later that month anarchists burst onto the church grounds.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Frick was later shot and stabbed in his office by an anarchist who heard of the strike, but survived.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Later, the anarchists found and shot Gil Parés.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Auburn can be the anarchists of college football’s final push.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Caserta recorded the video in front of an anarchist's flag and a map of Michigan.
    — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Not all of us in the anti-globalist crowd were pot-smoking anarchists.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • One of the first anarchist thinkers, William Godwin, wrote that old books are the bodies of ghosts.
    — Isabelle Frémeaux, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2020
  • When an anarchist frames one of them for treason, another is determined to track down a traitor.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a character who is an anarchist, and anarchism becomes a thread through the whole book.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Anarchists also threw at least one Molotov cocktail, a police spokesman said in an email.
    — Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2017
  • Berlin, gritty and vibrant, has always been a draw for anarchists and artists—families fare well here, too.
    — Vogue, 5 June 2018
  • The teen does not come across as an anarchist, Pipho previously told the Globe.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2020
  • This was built by a guy who is apparently an anarchist and lives relatively off the grid.
    — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2018
  • They were often viewed as kooky anarchists who had simply found a way to succeed with limited resources.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The students causing all the trouble have a lot in common with the average anarchist.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • Yet the media, which serve as fluffers for left-wing causes, will show up at every protest, even if ten anarchists are meeting for coffee.
    — Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2017
  • This resulted in the arrest and conviction of eight anarchists with no hard evidence of their guilt.
    — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • Several of the anarchists were convicted of the deaths, to strong public approval.
    — Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Without them, the state would be unable to provide the public goods that today’s sheltered anarchists take for granted.
    — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This was just the beginning of us young anarchists becoming judgmental jerks.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
  • All were marked for assassination by an anarchist cook named Jean Crones, who spiked the soup stock with arsenic.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Ngo has made a name for himself as a critical reporter of Antifa, and was attacked by the anarchist group nearly two years ago.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2021
  • In July, 1936, anarchists took over Barcelona, with churches again in their sights.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In the mid-60s, a group of artsy Dutch anarchists called Provo wanted to rage against the machine.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 18 June 2018
  • Much of the daily life at the tent city has been organized by a group of activists camping there, many of whom identify as transgender and anarchist.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The Portland mayor asked the public to come forward with any information on members of the anarchist group.
    — Thomas Barrabi, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And Birmingham, the son of a police officer and a mom who did social work, admit to being something of an anarchist.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025

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