How to Use militiaman in a Sentence

militiaman

noun
  • Palestinian militiamen in the camp held out for three-and-a-half days.
    — Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Have any of the heavily armed militiamen harmed anyone with their weapons?
    — The Tylt, AL.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • When the smoke cleared, eight American militiamen were dead, and the world would never be the same.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The militiamen pulled off his flight suit, boots and socks, leaving him in his T-shirt and underwear.
    — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The militiamen who fought the first battle of that war began a new epoch in human history.
    — Mark G. Spencer, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Some of his militiamen fought and killed US and Iraqi soldiers.
    — Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 10 June 2018
  • The park is threatened by hundreds of militiamen who poach its animals, and by farmers who sneak in to plant crops.
    — The Economist, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Lendu militiamen, some wearing human livers round their necks, poured into the town.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • The Bundy ranch standoff suggests that the militiamen never went away.
    — Max Strasser, Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2014
  • These militiamen from Virginia came to clear houses.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Some of these go to ex-militiamen, but no more than about 10%—the park does not want young men to see taking up arms as a shortcut to a salary.
    — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • At the very least, going public could make militiamen more suspicious of each other.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The dance circle grew, as women, men and militiamen guarding the daytime party joined.
    — Sarah El Deeb, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The militiamen held their ground briefly, fired their weapons, and then—as Morgan had commanded—left their posts and got out of harm’s way.
    — Alan Pell Crawford, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Women and girls as young as 14 have been raped by the RSF militiamen.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • The dance circle grew, as women, men, and militiamen guarding the daytime party joined.
    — Sarah El Deeb, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The dusty construction guy made common cause with the lawyer licking his paws and the bearded militiaman with a maggot in his brainstem.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • In one of them, a Serbian militiaman can be seen kicking the head of a dying Bosnian woman.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Behind them are hundreds of thousands of Basij militiamen, who have proved ready to kill demonstrators.
    — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The men wore women’s clothing in an attempt to evade RSF militiamen, but they were found out.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • The segment will include the story of one militiaman who fought for George Washington.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 May 2026
  • The militiamen hire Paiutes and make the attack look like the work of Native Americans.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • One of the young militiamen insisted that Syria’s minorities had nothing to fear under the new regime.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The three men skipped bail, but 40 armed militiamen showed up at court in their place, publicly threatening to kill any police officer who tried to take away their guns.
    — Daniel Southwell, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Iran has advisers and experts and has backed tens of thousands of militiamen who are fighting alongside Assad’s forces in the civil war.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2018
  • The escape was harrowing, with Besnik carrying a pistol to pass as a Serbian militiaman.
    — WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • While rebel militiamen pinned British troops in innermost Boston, their artillery couldn’t pierce the city’s British strongholds.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • Back in the woods, a band of militiamen wanders up to Jamie, beating the living daylights out of Lord John, and intervenes.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Iraqi soldiers and militiamen, flying Iraqi flags and green Shia standards, could march into town just as Kurds are preparing to vote.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Though government troops broke through the RSF’s blockade of Obeid last year, the militiamen are still positioned north, south and east of the city.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026

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