How to Use militia in a Sentence

militia

noun
  • For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
    — Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Yet not all the Shia militias have been eager to join the fight.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
  • There are thoughts that was in a local militia and never left the city.
    — al, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The past months have seen an uptick in deadly militia clashes.
    — Rami Musa, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Rebels and militias crisscross the desert shared by the two nations.
    — Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • His militia no longer reported to him.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And suddenly the militia guys wipe out.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • The pro-independence groups and militias that sprung up amid the war had no such rules.
    — Adam Jortner, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • So many of the Patriot militia were young.
    — Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Freddie was the link to a militia group that had been skimming money from the state to buy weapons.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Seven of the Wilsons’ 11 sons fought in militias.
    — Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026
  • Checkpoints have been set up across cities; militia forces threaten people in the streets.
    — Anonymous, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026
  • At the time, colonies formed their own militias made up of citizen-soldiers.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Last month, at least 13 people were killed in militia fighting.
    — Samy Magdy, ajc, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Two of our staff were killed 10 days ago in a militia attack in the center of the park.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 June 2026
  • The regime has armed, trained, and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Based on a true story of the militia’s fatal beating of a high school student.
    — Shalini Dore, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The man who is forming his own militia on Fraser’s Ridge.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
  • By morning, several of the mob had been shot dead by militia members.
    — Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Israeli militia spokesman Brig.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 19 June 2026
  • Those three have several links to the far-right Proud Boys militia.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The militia leaders condemned the attack, but most sought to downplay it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The militia leaders condemned the attack, but most sought to downplay it.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But as the ranks of the civilian militias have swelled over the past 18 months, so have reports of mass killings.
    — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • Some of those militias have voiced their support for al-Maliki.
    — Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And what about all the other innocents whom the militia tried to kill, like Kayce’s wife and son?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Washington had hit a wall in the Virginia militia.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Initial reports claimed that armed militias burned hundreds of wealthy landowners’ homes and manors.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some refugees talked about extreme right-wing militias waiting at border controls.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025

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