Example sentences for: militant

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

  • With Austrian and German armies massing on France’s frontiers and the forces of counter-revolution gathering inside the country, the militant revolutionary Jacobins led by Max­i­milien de Robespierre saw the king’s flight as the ultimate betrayal.

  • By the time Asses of Fire has been trimmed by the MPAA to a permissible one minute, the children of America are cursing authority figures and a militant countermovement--MAC, or Mothers Against Canada, led by Kyle's Ethel Merman-ish mom--has marked Terrance and Phillip for execution and driven the United States to war against its neighbor to the north.

  • If Muslims saw him as a righteous militant and Hindus as a brutal monster, neither denied him his title of “Sword of Islam. ”

  • A front-page NYT story reports how the rather militant advocacy of condom use by the prostitutes of Calcutta may be the way to keep the AIDS situation in India from going the way of Africa.

  • Bin Ladin apparently kept his options open, maintaining contacts with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who, though an Islamic extremist, was also one of the Taliban's most militant opponents.


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