variants
or guerilla
: a person who engages in irregular warfare especially as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage (see sabotage sense 2)
Guerrillas controlled half the country.
: of, relating to, or suggestive of guerrillas especially in being aggressive, radical, or unconventional
guerrilla warfare
Examples of guerrilla in a Sentence
Noun
The guerrillas controlled half the country.
Recent Examples on the Web
Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
And earlier this month, the internet devoured guerrilla footage of her first full concert in eight years — during the pre-wedding celebration for Anant Ambani, the son of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, and Radhika Merchant in Jamnagar, India.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
Opponents see the cause as equating guerrilla violence with state terror, justifying the junta’s repression of anyone deemed subversive.
—Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2024
With their staccato wordplay and sinewy rhythms, the Last Poets were pioneers of performance poetry, spinning out portraits of Black street life that often bristled with the guerrilla spirit of revolution.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Experts blame their rise in part on an influx into Mexico of mercenary fighters from Colombia, where explosives played a central role in a long-running war between leftist guerrilla groups and far-right paramilitaries.
—Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
In 2021, an activist hacker group developed a device to fix the ice cream machines better than the company’s systems could, and then later sued McDonalds after the restaurant chain effectively shut down their guerrilla efforts.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024
Navalny's team has called for a guerrilla protest on election day, telling people to gather quietly at midday on Sunday outside polling stations and encouraging them to vote for any candidate except Putin or to spoil their ballots.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
The anonymous British artist chooses public spaces for his guerrilla work, and inadvertently created a paradox: His works can sell for millions, and people have been caught trying to get them off public walls to take to auction houses.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
Phil Davison, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
The attacks have prompted Moscow to send anti-guerrilla units to Kherson, Mr. Saldo said.
—Yuras Karmanau and Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022
Experts say ex-guerrilla fighters, who once occupied the most remote parts of Colombia’s jungles, forests, mountains, and savannas, are uniquely prepared to aid scientists with ongoing conservation efforts.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2020
That was the year that social media really started to take off, which gave restaurants and bars this megaphone to kind of guerrilla market on their own.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango’s team, told me.
—Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
Maybe a little too guerrilla style for some of the crews.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
Her interviews were guerrilla achievements and global events.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Noun
The seventh and perhaps best known, 85-year-old Alberto Fujimori — credited by many here with defeating the Shining Path guerrilla insurgency — was released from prison last year after Peru’s highest court upheld a 2017 pardon on humanitarian grounds.
—Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
And earlier this month, the internet devoured guerrilla footage of her first full concert in eight years — during the pre-wedding celebration for Anant Ambani, the son of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, and Radhika Merchant in Jamnagar, India.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
Opponents see the cause as equating guerrilla violence with state terror, justifying the junta’s repression of anyone deemed subversive.
—Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2024
With their staccato wordplay and sinewy rhythms, the Last Poets were pioneers of performance poetry, spinning out portraits of Black street life that often bristled with the guerrilla spirit of revolution.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Experts blame their rise in part on an influx into Mexico of mercenary fighters from Colombia, where explosives played a central role in a long-running war between leftist guerrilla groups and far-right paramilitaries.
—Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
In 2021, an activist hacker group developed a device to fix the ice cream machines better than the company’s systems could, and then later sued McDonalds after the restaurant chain effectively shut down their guerrilla efforts.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024
Navalny's team has called for a guerrilla protest on election day, telling people to gather quietly at midday on Sunday outside polling stations and encouraging them to vote for any candidate except Putin or to spoil their ballots.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
The anonymous British artist chooses public spaces for his guerrilla work, and inadvertently created a paradox: His works can sell for millions, and people have been caught trying to get them off public walls to take to auction houses.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
Adjective
She became known as a muse of desbunde, an anti-military but also anti-guerrilla nonconformist zeitgeist.
—Phil Davison, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
The attacks have prompted Moscow to send anti-guerrilla units to Kherson, Mr. Saldo said.
—Yuras Karmanau and Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022
Experts say ex-guerrilla fighters, who once occupied the most remote parts of Colombia’s jungles, forests, mountains, and savannas, are uniquely prepared to aid scientists with ongoing conservation efforts.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2020
That was the year that social media really started to take off, which gave restaurants and bars this megaphone to kind of guerrilla market on their own.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango’s team, told me.
—Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
Maybe a little too guerrilla style for some of the crews.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
Her interviews were guerrilla achievements and global events.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
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