How to Use nonmilitary in a Sentence

nonmilitary

adjective
  • How did a nonmilitary crew capture and imprison a Xenomorph in the first place?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Hamas had earlier asked for a five-day pause to release nonmilitary hostages.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The goal would be to provide food, medicine and other nonmilitary supplies for days, weeks and maybe longer.
    — Douglas J. Feith and John Hannah, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The Houthis have also helped Iran with its nonmilitary needs.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Chinese customers must still demonstrate that the chips will be used for nonmilitary purposes.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Putin is serious about achieving these goals by military and nonmilitary means.
    — Fiona Hill, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That raised questions about why Moscow would squander its dwindling weaponry on nonmilitary sites.
    — Steven Erlanger, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That raised questions about why Moscow would squander its dwindling weaponry on nonmilitary sites.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But the most glaring shortfalls appeared in diplomacy and in nonmilitary planning.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
  • That has included some plants that serve both military and nonmilitary purposes.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • What the recent numbers also show is that the effort slowed in recent days, with nonmilitary flights making up a large percentage of the total.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Russian forces have shelled nonmilitary areas from long distances in an attempt to demoralize Ukraine and drive civilians out of cities.
    — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This insurance provider has the best insurance rates overall for nonmilitary citizens.
    — Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
  • How about the nonmilitary promotion of democracy by the United States?
    — Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Russia has responded with its biggest flurry of missile strikes in months against civilians and other nonmilitary targets in cities across Ukraine.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In his tenure as prime minister, Slovakia became the first country to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, though nonmilitary aid continued.
    — Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • China has also increasingly sought to coerce Taiwan through nonmilitary means.
    — Marvin Park, Foreign Affairs, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Its chief nonmilitary business is Gulfstream Aerospace, producer of business jets.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Argentina reflects a worst-case scenario of how the military can absorb practices from nonmilitary agents that erode its professionalism.
    — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The escalated rhetoric and apparent resolve to use force could raise the stakes of nonmilitary efforts to restore democracy in the wake last month’s military coup in Niger.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Yet Black people from military families were no less supportive of the war than Black people from nonmilitary families.
    — Naima Green-Riley, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2024
  • With the law’s expiration, the two parties have less incentive to abide by the principle of parity in military and nonmilitary spending increases.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The mention of coercion, believed to be a first, refers to China’s use of nonmilitary means to pressure Taiwan, such as cyberattacks and trade restrictions.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • If the region’s democracies are to survive the illiberal pressures of punitive populism, governments must prove that nonmilitary measures can be effective.
    — Gustavo Flores-Macías, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Using the military as backup A second tactic is to place military forces in prominent missions as backup for nonmilitary personnel.
    — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats say that the caps sought by Republicans on nonmilitary spending will put at risk veterans’ healthcare, which is typically covered under the caps on nondefense spending.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Israel's strikes on Lebanon have rocked Hezbollah but also killed civilians and destroyed nonmilitary infrastructure, such as this blast in Beirut on Wednesday.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • With nonmilitary flights over Ukraine all but impossible, Kamyshin and his colleagues have had to manage the flow of foreign leaders and diplomats heading to Kyiv to meet with the government.
    — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Ukraine’s wish list is long, and nonmilitary assistance is certainly on it, but Ukrainian officials made clear their most important ask is for easing restrictions on where Western weapons can be used.
    — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • According to Ukraine’s ministry of defense, 70 percent of Russian missiles hit nonmilitary targets.
    — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023

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