Example sentences for: squads

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

  • It's a full-time job just controlling the young hotheads on some NBA squads.

  • The old illegal numbers racket was vigorously battled by vice squads across the land until the states got into the business.

  • The stories dominating the European press Wednesday were: in France, the opening of the manslaughter trial of three prominent French politicians for the state's distribution of HIV-tainted blood; in Germany, the Christian Democrat Party's sweep to power in the state of Hesse using an anti-immigrant election strategy; in Italy, the government's decision to regularize some 250,000 illegal immigrants from outside the European Union; and in Britain, no particular story, though the Daily Telegraph led its front page with the opening of the country's first ever war crimes trial--that of Anthony Sawoniuk, a 77-year-old former Belorussian accused of leading "search and kill" squads to hunt down Jews who had escaped a massacre during the Nazi wartime occupation of Belarus.

  • The saint’s church was pockmarked by Italian bombs during the Civil War, though others maintain that firing squads performed executions here.

  • The Washington Post says human-rights groups are calling attention to "the rise of Palestinian death squads," but the Los Angeles Times says the Palestinian public supports the executions.


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