How to Use jihadist in a Sentence

jihadist

noun
  • There seems to be a fad amongst jihadists to slice up teachers.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But jihadists still make up the backbone of its forces.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In our long staring contest with the jihadists, now is not the time to blink.
    — David French, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Both young men had trained and fought as jihadists in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Just like jihadists, fame, even in death, is preferable to their anonymity.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Common sense says this is why there is so much jihadist terrorism.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The jihadists are unable to take Bamako, for now.
    — Ulf Laessing, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Since then, al-Sharaa has worked to distance himself from his past as a jihadist.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Then there’s the military, which has been charged with fighting the jihadists over the last decade.
    — Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • That attack failed, leaving one jihadist dead and three wounded.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2020
  • The dead jihadists leave behind orphans to be fed a diet of revenge.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • What is true is that jihadist attacks have made a difference to the most harmful crimes.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Some journalists would stop passers-by and ask to be introduced to a jihadist.
    — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The video shows her hands tied and she is pushed into a Jeep with multiple jihadists.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Then a homegrown jihadist group began to form and attacks became more brazen.
    — Brahima Ouedraogo, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The jihadists are equipped to transfer to insurgent-style warfare.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • Qassam was a jihadist and had already waged war against Italians in Libya.
    — Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the attacks have been claimed or praised by the jihadist group Islamic State.
    — Emma Ross-Thomas, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • In France, more than 200 people have died in jihadist attacks over the past three years.
    — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
  • This follows the stabbing of two people in London by a jihadist who had just been released.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The jihadists are often believed to come from neighboring Mali.
    — Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our border.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • Desbois followed the news as Yazidis fled the jihadists of the Middle East.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2018
  • Yet even before this interruption, the battle with jihadists was not going well.
    — Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The area is controlled by the hardest-core rebels, jihadists linked to al-Qaeda, who will not go quietly.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The absence of any plan to deal with the detainees is part of the wider disorder in the lands liberated from the jihadists.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden’s death, in a statement on jihadist forums.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Along with other refugees he was put in a bus, driven to the Syrian border and handed over to jihadists.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The jihadist who killed the teacher did so after watching a Facebook video posted by that parent.
    — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The government controlled less than half the country and the jihadists stood primed to march into Baghdad.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018

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