Example sentences for: paramilitary

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

  • Even Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was moved to his first "unequivocal condemnation of a republican paramilitary action," reported Dublin's Irish Times.

  • The WP says there are increasing indications that Indonesian forces have joined in the violence, noting that apparently many victims had been shot by military assault rifles and citing a report that a U.N. convoy was fired on by paramilitary police.

  • The last paragraph begins: "Of course, half the fun of watching 'The Sopranos' is watching a family that is really a paramilitary organization."

  • "Putting some teeth into the drug war, Colombia's right-wing paramilitary death squads will now be aided by apple-cheeked American teen-agers.

  • Black radicalism accelerated after the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1965 and reached its peak with the Black Panthers in Oakland, a paramilitary organization led by Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale.


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