How to Use paramilitary in a Sentence

paramilitary

adjective
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  • Government forces have been attacked by heavily armed paramilitary groups in several villages.
  • As in the game, the city is full of paramilitary forces.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
  • But the two generals could not agree on a timeline for bringing the paramilitary forces under the umbrella of the army.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • He had been accused of stabbing two members of the paramilitary Basij militia, which is leading the crackdown.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Sudan has been rocked by fighting for more than two months as the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battle for control of the country.
    — Jack Jeffery, ajc, 19 June 2023
  • Hestia, who lives in the border state of Maryland, has to figure out how to fend for herself when her husband abandons her to join a pro-Union paramilitary group.
    — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • She high-fived and fist-bumped and took a ton of photos of the two men in red berets and paramilitary pants, the whoosh of memories bringing the 61-year-old back to hard days in New York, back to being a teenager and being scared.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • Russian state media showed footage of a raid said to have been carried out on the mansion and offices of Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
    — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 8 July 2023
  • Over time, the conflict grew to feature a wider array of armed groups including leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary groups and drug cartels.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Its members wear a signature red beret and often dress in paramilitary garb.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces on April 15.
    — Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Earlier in the full-scale war, women had taken combat roles in paramilitary groups or by skirting rules.
    — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • All 10 people were killed, including Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
    — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The three men, along with two others who had been convicted in an earlier trial, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a far-right paramilitary group.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • So, another question for Raskin: If all states have provisions against paramilitary groups, why the need for a federal law?
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The clashes have intensified as the army has tried to block the paramilitary group’s supply routes coming from its stronghold in Darfur, in western Sudan.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Russia has gained a foothold in its own way, extending paramilitary support to the most violent leaders on the continent.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The Miami Showband was one of the most popular bar bands in Ireland in the '70s, but during a time of unrest, members of a paramilitary group attacked a gig, killing five people including most of the band.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Thatcher was not, of course, the first assassination target of Irish paramilitary groups.
    — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group battled for control of the nation for a second day Sunday.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force — the RSF — which are locked in a power struggle threatening to destabilize the wider region.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This is particularly the case in places where paramilitary groups such as Wagner have been active.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2023
  • Several of the defendants were members of Wolverine Watchmen, a far-right paramilitary group.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Prieto, who is gay, is being blackmailed by real estate moguls and the siblings’ mother is involved with a covert paramilitary group in Puerto Rico.
    — Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
  • During the mutiny, forces from the Wagner paramilitary group, which Mr. Prigozhin founded, took over a key southern city and an armed convoy of mercenaries marched toward Moscow.
    — Robin Stein, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Majidreza Rahnavard was hanged in the northeastern city of Mashhad after he was accused of killing two paramilitary officers.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Even as its fighters mount attacks against the army in the capital, the paramilitary unit has become synonymous with one activity: looting.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • She was untied, dressed in a paramilitary uniform and transferred to another car filled with uniformed militants.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Khan’s arrest by paramilitary forces on the premises of Islamabad’s high court on Tuesday had prompted days of violent clashes in Pakistan.
    — Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post, 11 May 2023

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