Example sentences for: partisans

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

  • It is telling, indeed, about the anti-intellectual nature of this book that the blurbs on the back do not come from intellectuals or scholars at all but from popular black personalities and partisans for causes.

  • At the base of the Aventine, a postwar park has been named the Parco della Resistenza dell'Otto Settembre , commemorating the heroic action against the Nazis there on that date in 1943 by the Italian partisans.

  • The order played a great part in Cretan uprisings against the Turks — monks were hanged in 1821 — and more recently against the Germans in WWII when it was a rallying point for British soldiers and native partisans.

  • Regarding the dialogue between Susan Estrich and David Brooks in "The Breakfast Table" (June 22): Now I know that I can't have a beer with a friend in a public bar in Washington without being accused of impropriety by one of President Clinton's ever-watchful partisans.

  • As Gorney notes, the well-meaning organization known as Common Ground Network for Life and Choice, a national project that brings pro-choice and pro-life activists together in discussion circles and makes mediators available to help resolve their differences, has succeeded mainly in inflaming partisans on both sides while producing "extremely modest tangible results."


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