How to Use intifada in a Sentence

intifada

noun
  • Abbas may have been president, but the chaos of the post-intifada era still loomed large.
    — Amir Tibon, The Atlantic, 2 July 2017
  • For as long as these divisions hold, there’s little chance of a third intifada.
    — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 11 May 2021
  • The surge in violence and complete lack of progress in peace talks has sparked fears of a third intifada.
    — Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2017
  • That year, marked by the suicide bombings of the second intifada, was tense and bloody.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The attack was considered as one of the triggers for the first intifada.
    — Albert Aji, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • The Left has hit on its next big project — an intifada against the country’s largest maker of electric cars.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
  • By the time the second intifada broke out in 2000, many of the camp’s teenagers joined militant groups.
    — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2025
  • By the time the second intifada broke out in 2000, many of the camp’s teenagers joined militant groups.
    — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • But this round — which like the intifada, began in Jerusalem — seems to be rippling far and wide, tearing apart the country at its seams.
    — Samy Magdy, USA TODAY, 13 May 2021
  • Then the peace process imploded as Palestinians launched the second intifada that fall.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, the talks failed and the second intifada broke out, quickly becoming far more violent than the first.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Part of this hard-right shift, analysts say, has to do with the trauma of the violent second intifada, or uprising.
    — Yardena Schwartz, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Kiswani wanted to globalize the intifada.
    — Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The intifada lasts more than five years, ending in September 1993.
    — USA Today, 20 May 2021
  • The second intifada took place basically from the fall of 2000.
    — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This story has been corrected to reflect that the first intifada started in 1987.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2014
  • The first intifada, in the 1980s, was defined mainly by protests and violent riots.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and opposes Israel's existence, has called for a new intifada.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
  • Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and opposes Israel’s existence, has called for a new intifada.
    — Josef Federman and Fares Akram, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
  • And the other one, of course, is as the CT chief in the military intelligence, the second intifada.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2022
  • The attacks occurred in and around Jerusalem during a wave of violence known as the second, or Al-Aqsa, intifada.
    — Mark Sherman, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The Jenin refugee camp was the scene of one of the deadliest battles of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
    — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But this round seems to be rippling farther and wider than at any time since the 2000 Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • Hamas, which controls Gaza, has called for a third intifada, or uprising, against Israel in wake of Trump’s decision.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2017
  • That was well into the Palestinian uprising that began in 1987, known as the first intifada.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But after the bloodshed of the Palestinian intifadas and Hamas’s vicious attacks on Israel, that moment is long gone.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians were killed in the last intifada in the early 2000s.
    — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Indeed, the Camp David summit collapsed, and the Palestinians launched the second intifada a few months later.
    — Martin Indyk, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • But, as Sachs goes on to show, likening Gaza to pre-apartheid South Africa is very different to preaching support for a global intifada.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The level of risk harks back to two decades ago to the wave of violence known as the second intifada, when 12 medics were killed, according to the Red Crescent.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 19 July 2023

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