Example sentences for: militancy

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

  • The Moderates feared a new proletarian militancy among factory workers.

  • The Muslim world, he said, should shun militancy and extremism; the West-and the United States in particular-should seek to resolve disputes with justice and help better the Muslim world.

  • The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."

  • Hence feminism, or rather, in Lilla's kind words, "the joyless militancy of American feminists"; multiculturalism; gay rights; and all the other movements which subject personal relations to "the exacting scrutiny of pure democratic principles."

  • Despite Davis' well-known militancy, he didn't care to set his music to civil rights poetry or to compose preacherly anthems in the manner of Coltrane.


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