How to Use guerrilla in a Sentence

guerrilla

noun
  • The guerrillas controlled half the country.
  • Many were members of guerrilla movements that had vowed to overthrow the state.
    — Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Cregger shot the scene, one of the funnier moments in the movie, guerrilla style.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Still, some city staff give guerrilla artists a lot of credit for laying the groundwork.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
  • One man from Colombia told me that a guerrilla group that controlled his area tried to recruit him.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • In a mountain town controlled by guerrillas, flags hidden for years out of fear reappeared on rooftops.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Later, the guerrilla group witnessed a hawk snatch its dinner from the water.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
  • If anything, the guerrilla approach makes the movie feel only more stunted.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The guerrillas took the high court hostage and intended to subject the then-president to a trial.
    — Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
  • There was also a ton of guerrilla street decoration.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Prometheus got something of a rehab a few years ago, and a while after that, a couple of guerrilla artists stuck an outsized meth pipe in his hand.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But this wasn’t some kind of clever guerrilla marketing campaign, Rainbolt said.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There were a lot of confrontations near here between the military, the police and the guerrillas.
    — Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • What remains are guerrilla groups that blend into a sea of over two million Palestinians.
    — Ehud Barak, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Colombian guerrilla groups operate in at least eight of Venezuela’s 24 states.
    — Helena Carpio, Time, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, was sworn in to office late last year.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • God willing, in less than ten months, the guerrilla IS OUT.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mauricio says his wife, who was displaced in Colombia by guerrilla violence, has never been away from her kids for this long.
    — Gustavo Valdés, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Essentially, the armed forces of Peru took control of the drug trade from the leftist guerrillas.
    — Michelle D. Paranzino, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
  • The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won’t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical economic upheaval.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • And people forced into guerrilla fighting tend to radicalize—not always in good ways.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Pol Pot and his senior lieutenants fled, resolving to continue their fight as guerrillas.
    — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • Over the course of some three decades, Joseph Kony recruited thousands of child soldiers to serve in his fearsome guerrilla group.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Petro did not participate in the attack, which left several guerrillas and around half the high court's magistrates dead.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026
  • In Colombia, the far left came to power this week with the election of a former M-19 guerrilla.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 22 June 2022
  • Additional guerrilla art installations will pop up around the city throughout the week.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and the training of a guerrilla army.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and training of a guerrilla army.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026
  • What needs to happen to spark a Robbie Conal guerrilla postering mission?
    — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and the training of a guerrilla army.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025

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