Example sentences for: brigades

How can you use “brigades” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A document purporting to come from the Red Brigades, a guerrilla group thought to have been eliminated, later claimed responsibility for the killing.

  • Most presidents don't give a shit who wins or loses, and just cause huge traffic jams and inconveniences to real fans with their Secret Service brigades.

  • The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.

  • The NYT pass at the story, running inside, includes this not-quite-Miranda warning from Arafat's chief of police, "If anyone from the Qassam Brigades [of Hamas] gets near a police officer, shoot him in the legs!"

  • La Stampa , in a front-page comment, called it "a punch in the stomach," comparing it to other sadly unforgettable photos such as those of the dead Che Guevara, the napalm-burnt little girl during the Vietnam War, and the despairing Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro as a prisoner of the Red Brigades.


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