Example sentences for: partisans

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

  • When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.

  • As the bid failed, hundreds of partisans and their families sought sanctuary in the compound.

  • At the far end of the Democratic caucus from the Partisans are the Institutionalists , Patrick Moynihan (New York) and Robert Byrd (West Virginia).

  • We may be at the stage in the scandal where any assertion by Bill Clinton or his partisans has everyone not only doubting it but also immediately assuming the opposite.

  • In a recent New York Times op-ed essay titled "No Time for Partisans" (not available in the Times Web site free space, unfortunately) four distinguished Washington figures call for "responsible leaders on both sides" to make a deal.


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