How to Use warlord in a Sentence

warlord

noun
  • Trump is selling us out to tech warlords, at home and abroad.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • More than mere warlords threaten the ragged survivors of this world.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • Khan didn’t need to puff up his arms or chest to play the part of an enforcer to a medieval warlord.
    — Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Syria was plunged into chaos, and Jerash was briefly ruled by warlords.
    — Eva Tobalina, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Out of the ashes, local warlords and strongmen would rise up.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • This one had made a career studying African warlords.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Players can use their warlords as their in-game profile pictures.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
  • And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord Jasper tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Or the country could descend into civil war among its warlords.
    — Andreas Kluth, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Some, though, were taken to the nearest large city and pressed into service of the warlord or king who had won them.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Most of the main party leaders today were warlords themselves.
    — Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Evmolpus was a Thracian king and famous warlord who could talk with the gods.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
  • In Libya, Salafist Madkhalis used armed vice squads and alliances with warlords.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But the story will feature the character helping refugees being run off their land by a warlord.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2022
  • One said the former warlord sliced a baby from a pregnant woman’s stomach and strung her intestines up as rope.
    — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The government is receding and the warlords are rising, but the two are in conflict.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In the future, most of Earth is covered by water and the only land is controlled by a warlord and his army of sharks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The United States should not devolve into one of the world’s last-standing oil warlords.
    — Tom Philp, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Russians shuttled warlords to peace talks with the government, helping lead to a deal with more than a dozen armed groups to stop fighting.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Black women standing up to white women, Wiley seems to say, is like a widow going up against a warlord.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
    — Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Those warlords fought for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Iain Glen is swapping the warlords of Westeros for the Vikings in his latest project.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Instead, the warlord repaid the debt by handing over a Boeing 727.
    — Fahim Abed, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • His target, Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a former warlord, sits in a cell nearby.
    — The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Watch the Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who like Prigozhin runs a large private militia.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • Those warlords fought each other for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The pic was set in Medieval Japan and followed an elderly warlord who retires and hands over his empire to his three sons.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The mayor, the latest in a long line of feline-loving warlords, has banished all dogs to Trash Island.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018

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