How to Use militant in a Sentence

militant

adjective
  • That’s the militant group out of Yemen.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • There was the threat of Daesh and other armed militant groups.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • There was the threat of Daesh and other armed militant groups.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But the militant group has survived efforts to curb its strength for decades.
    — ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But the militant group has survived efforts to curb its strength for decades.
    — E. Eduardo Castillo, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Instead the new regime is solely made up by members of the militant group.
    — Henry Austin, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The militant group Hamas claimed five of the nine killed in this refugee camp this year as their fighters.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
  • The militant group joined the war in support of Iran in the opening days.
    — Munir Ahmed, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The militant group has said that the move would affect the remaining hostages as well.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Israel says the militant group can access the remains of most of the hostages.
    — Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The militant group joined the war in support of its backer, Iran.
    — ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The militant group has sustained heavy losses but has not been destroyed.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Some militant groups which inked peace deals are still armed, with rogue elements that may still be active.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The other is one of the world's strictest Islamist militant groups.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • The militant group hoped the event would revive its battered image.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • That’s a fine goal, but the left’s demands are becoming more militant.
    — David Bahnsen, wsj.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The militant group is still holding 50 hostages, less than half of them believed to be alive.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025
  • The rooms are adorned with tiles more fitting of a home than the underground compound of a militant group.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Hamas has formed a task force to confront them that the militant group says has killed around two dozen gang members in recent months.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The militant group said the body had been pulled from a tunnel in Khan Younis.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The nation is still reeling from the militant group's cross-border raid last year that started the war.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Iraqi Kurds and Iraqi forces helped defeat the militant group in Iraq.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 2 May 2026
  • His truck bore the flag of the militant Islamic State group.
    — Steve Karnowski, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The militant group now holds at least one-third of Afghanistan’s 364 districts.
    — Sher Jan Ahmadzai, The Conversation, 22 July 2021
  • The regime funds and equips Hamas and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
    — Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Five members of an Islamist militant group were sentenced to death last year, while one was jailed for life.
    — Reuters, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Six of those who died there were members of the Palestinian militant group, which emerged in the city last year.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Since that siege, Philippine officials have cracked down hard on militant groups.
    — Jinky Jorgio, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In the militant revanche of the late Putin era, men are men, women are women, and the men are in charge.
    — Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • However, some members of the militant group refused to engage in the peace process from the start.
    — Annabella González, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026

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