Example sentences for: combatants

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

  • This would be, the paper says, a reversal of current U.S. law that prohibits food assistance to combatants before they demobilize.

  • Even when women aren't combatants, they hardly shy away from the thought of war, or from its gore.

  • The narrative climaxes in Dayton, Ohio, where the combatants sat around an Air Force base for three weeks and reached a peace accord.

  • The Italian Army was the least well prepared of the combatants, lacking artillery, machine guns, trucks, and properly trained officers, but the infantry showed remarkable courage in the trenches.

  • The Civil War ended with some 700,000 combatants dead on both sides; another 30,000 were executed or assassinated, including many priests and nuns, and perhaps 15,000 civilians were killed in air raids.


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