How to Use jihad in a Sentence

jihad

noun
  • This is a list of girls who have become victims of love jihad.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In the past few years the sparks of jihad have been struck in this tinderbox.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad – and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.
    — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • These people have read that Chicago is the new front line in the culinary jihad.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Because that is a theocratic regime who is hell-bent on global jihad.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And after a long absence, all three were now involved in global jihad.
    — Ali Soufan, Newsweek, 19 June 2017
  • Those intent on continuing to wage jihad will still have the means.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Wanting to blow up buildings in the name of a religious jihad is a viewpoint.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • When five of their friends went to Pakistan this spring to return to jihad, both men brimmed with jealousy.
    — Christina Goldbaum Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Some of its is because there are so many other places to wage jihad — like Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2008
  • Oh, and your followers have launched a jihad in your name that’s causing the body count to climb to dizzying heights.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As part of the plea, Damache admitted to training a child to prepare for jihad.
    — Claudia Lauer, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
  • The streets of London, Paris and Berlin are blocked by marchers calling for jihad.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father's style of jihad.
    — Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • But Hamza bin Laden is not advocating his father’s style of jihad.
    — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • There is no certainty to this outcome, though, and the jihad is clearly at odds with the views of most Americans.
    — Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The person replied that Lutchman needed to prove himself first with an act of jihad in the US.
    — Lisa Rose, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • People all over the country were wary of prayer leaders preaching about jihad or creating pretexts for others to wage it.
    — Mohammed Hanif, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
  • For naïve young men, disenchanted with jihad and looking at forty years to life, that can be a powerful incentive to talk.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • In fact, Islam itself, the jihad, was founded by a woman and the prophet’s an employee of a woman.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In 1996, bin Laden declared a jihad against the United States.
    — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Spain, and specifically Catalonia, has long been known to house groups linked to jihad and terrorism groups.
    — Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • There is no doubt that al-Zawahri was the leader of a terrorist movement whose global jihad has killed thousands of people.
    — Charlie Savage, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Trump’s pick for secretary of state has, like Bolton, aligned himself with the counter-jihad without endorsing their most extreme ideas.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The modern Salafi–jihadi movement formed during the Afghan jihad.
    — Katherine Zimmerman, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Up next, disturbing news on the jihads in America that almost no one is talking about, not even the bachelor, stay tuned.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The deal is meant to end the decades-old Muslim rebellion in Mindanao and reduce the attraction of jihad.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2017
  • These strivers have no use for jihad, but the year is 1999 and the FBI is already on high terror alert.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Ivan converts to Islam, at first mostly just to fit in, but is quickly and forcibly recruited to engage in radical jihad.
    — Justin Torres, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • Christians are also being killed by Boko Haram, a jihad terrorist group, in the Borno state, the report said.
    — Fox News, 24 Dec. 2019

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