How to Use militancy in a Sentence

militancy

noun
  • But where that militancy builds, the forces of capital are there to meet it.
    — Luis Feliz Leon, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Oregon is a powder keg of militancy right now, and its fuse is now burning bright and hot.
    — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In her opinion, my anti-screen militancy was going to drive all three of us crazy.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • So many of them were born from the militancy or utopianism of the 1960s.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The attack is seen by many as a turning point in Pakistan's war against militancy.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • There’s been a lot of talk in the national media and elsewhere this fall about the new worker militancy.
    — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Such is the unrepentant militancy of the right’s voter fraud witch hunt.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The military says the campaign is needed to curb militancy.
    — Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The city of Jenin has been a hotbed of Palestinian militancy.
    — Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • For over three decades, Khamenei has used diplomacy and militancy to achieve his foreign policy goals.
    — Saeid Golkar, Time, 16 June 2021
  • This conflict is Africa's longest struggle with militancy and has led to deadly attacks.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • At the height of the militancy, rebels reduced Nigeria’s oil production by a quarter.
    — Conor Gaffey, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2016
  • What Dworkin brought to the scene was, depending on your view of her rhetoric, either a bolder militancy or a greater tendentiousness.
    — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • Since the late 1980s, separatist militancy has added to the tourism industry’s woes.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 22 Oct. 2019
  • At the same time, the last several years have seen an upsurge in labor militancy that few would have predicted in 1996.
    — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This kind of militancy is no longer beneath the surface, and it is aimed at fellow Americans and at fellow Christians who do not toe the line.
    — John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Labor union militancy has increased, as evidenced by the Boeing strike as well as a surge in strikes in 2023.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • By the time of the fund-raiser, the distance between the two men had been widened by Baldwin’s sympathies for the militancy of the younger generation.
    — Eddie S. Glaude, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
  • Far-right members of the government have called for a long-term occupation of the city, which has emerged over the past year as a hotbed for Palestinian militancy.
    — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • And the Philippines, Thailand and Laos also had changes in risk ratings, due to reductions in militancy.
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Despite the militancy of its devoted fans, Syfy had canceled The Expanse.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In the trial, Rhodes’s lawyers will attempt to sway the jury using an argument rooted in Rhodes’s version of right-wing militancy.
    — Mike Giglio, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Is this sometimes tongue-and-cheek or knee-jerk militancy a disguise for the pursuit of the American dream, which is exported worldwide by way of Black music?
    — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Txomin throws himself into militancy, committed to the collective cause.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Israel has shifted its attention to the centers of militancy in the northern West Bank as its campaign against Hamas in Gaza has wound down.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • As the years passed, clashes escalated and the death toll mounted, the PKK increasingly turned to militancy.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The raids, carried out in Nablus, Jenin and other West Bank cities considered hotbeds of militancy, have been violent.
    — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Parks went on to inspire countless others and energize the movement, which would evolve in the 1960s to more militancy and the birth of the Black Panthers.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The Hindu exodus from Kashmir in the 1990s came during the peak of the separatist militancy.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • He is widely viewed as a loyal enforcer of the regime, combining ideological militancy with control over security and logistics.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026

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