Example sentences for: squads

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

  • The allegation would have seemed bizarre if it hadn't been familiar: Two years earlier, coalition officials had accused another nonprofit of using "goon squads" of homeless men to roust other homeless people from ATM vestibules--charges later found to be groundless.

  • Like how Kathie Lee and other sweatshop profiteers should thank those CIA-sponsored death squads of the '80s, and the taxpayers who footed the bill.

  • In July 2001, an FBI agent in the Phoenix field office sent a memo to FBI headquarters and to two agents on international terrorism squads in the New York Field Office, advising of the "possibility of a coordinated effort by Usama Bin Ladin" to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation schools.

  • Because, like many evil dictators, he learned from the absolute best: los Federales de Los Estados Unidos, as the good ol' boys in the expertly trained death squads of Central America like to affectionately call them.

  • 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.


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