Sample Sentences formilitant (editor-reviewed)
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The Taliban militant said he was fighting for his religion and way of life.militant = someone who uses extreme or violent methods to achieve a political goal
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The country is cracking down on militant farmers who are blocking city traffic until government funded crop insurance is instituted.militant = using extreme or violent methods to achieve a political goal
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In our case it happened to be a white-bearded militant called Sufi Mohammad. (source)militant = person who uses violence to achieve a political goal
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She was the kind of woman who would be held in contempt during the militant nineteen sixties. (source)militant = of the use of extreme or violent methods to achieve political goals
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No self-respecting espionage agent would willingly admit he was disloyal. Yet the very idea of the oath itself—appearing at the end of that first chaotic year—became the final goad that prodded many once-loyal citizens to turn militantly anti-American. (source)militantly = in a manner that uses extreme or violent methods to achieve a political goal
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Around the same time, a group of militants was taking over the city's stock exchange. (source)militants = people who use extreme or violent methods to achieve a political goal
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But soon the most militant had left the group. (source)militant = tending to use extreme or violent methods to achieve political goals
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He and the other thirty-four FORCE troopers watched as the mob grew to three hundred thousand militants kept at bay only by the boat's containment field and the lack of an order to attack by the New Prophet.† (source)
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The new militancy from the pulpit had become like so much noise in a place you had come to hear soothing music.† (source)
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The Toronto Anti-Draft Programme favored "assimilation into mainstream Canadian life"; they considered the Union of American Exiles "too political"—by which they meant, too activist, too militantly anti—United States.† (source)
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We were faithful about it before; now we're militant.† (source)
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Or any of the hardcore militants in the world.† (source)
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The militancy of the Jesuits he somewhat resembled is a case in point.† (source)
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It all makes for a lovely picture, except that Nathaniel is as militantly opposed as ever.† (source)
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Her supporters referred to her as a "memory militant," a woman who would stop at nothing to pressure France into protecting its besieged Jewish minority.† (source)
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In those terrible days of open conflict, I was being taken into the inner cities, usually by black militants, as an observer.† (source)
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