How to Use guerrilla in a Sentence
guerrilla
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Food and drinks come out of the kitchen via three former members of the Tamil Tigers, a guerrilla group that was based in Sri Lanka.
—Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
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In Colombia, the far left came to power this week with the election of a former M-19 guerrilla.
—Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 22 June 2022
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Many were members of guerrilla movements that had vowed to overthrow the state.
—Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022
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For the past year, a group known as the National Resistance Front has waged a guerrilla war against the Taliban.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
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One man from Colombia told me that a guerrilla group that controlled his area tried to recruit him.
—Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
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If anything, the guerrilla approach makes the movie feel only more stunted.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
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Over the course of some three decades, Joseph Kony recruited thousands of child soldiers to serve in his fearsome guerrilla group.
—Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
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But the militants adapted and turned to guerrilla warfare.
—Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 July 2022
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Just outside the Kabul city gates, a guerrilla cornered the famous musician, who had grown out his beard and put on dirty clothes as a disguise.
—Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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My suggestion is the most obvious one: Start your own guerrilla group.
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
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In Yemen, Saudi Arabia met with a fate common to large powers confronting guerrilla forces abroad.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
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Once the soldier acting as a lookout fled, the guerrilla entered the camp, threw grenades at and opened fire into the tents of unsuspecting Israeli soldiers.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
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Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, was sworn in to office late last year.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
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Assigned as nurses, teachers and transporters of food and weapons, the women were trusted to ensure that guerrilla fighters had places to live and food to eat, Ms. Urdang said.
—New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
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After she was caught off guard by the remix blasting throughout the neighborhood, the guerrilla filmer had spotted Ice and Pink filming in a nearby fire escape.
—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 11 May 2023
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Some of Mexico’s most prominent guerrilla leaders during the country’s dirty war in the 1970s were graduates of the school.
—Juan Montes, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
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The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won’t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical economic upheaval.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 3 June 2022
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But this wasn’t some kind of clever guerrilla marketing campaign, Rainbolt said.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
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What needs to happen to spark a Robbie Conal guerrilla postering mission?
—Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
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From the style of cinematography to the handheld guerrilla run-and-gun filmmaking, the California sunshine comes through on the screen.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
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There are the last remaining humans who are not under the control over the sound-emitters and as such, try to rescue outliers and disrupt her plans through guerrilla warfare.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
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Waging a guerrilla war against metric road signs and signposts: unscrewing them in the dead of night, stowing them in hedgerows, or amending them using paints and stickers.
—James Vincent, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2023
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More serious charges have now emerged against him and close allies alleging ties to the Shining Path, a Marxist guerrilla group based in the south of Peru, which once controlled vast swaths of the country.
—David Unsworth, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
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Most of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1921 after a guerrilla war.
—Adam Geller, ajc, 13 Sep. 2022
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Then-President Álvaro Uribe, elected on a promise to impose an iron fist against guerrilla groups, named Montoya as army chief in 2006.
—Diana Durán, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
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The group’s members have described the onslaught as part guerrilla messaging aimed at shaping coverage of the race and part psy-op aimed at the candidate himself.
—Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
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Some French and even American guerrillas eagerly plunged into the fight.
—Katie Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
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The sociologist-turned-guerrilla knows those risks too well.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022
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The Bolsonaro government repeatedly delayed the release of a groundbreaking 2019 film about the leftist politician and guerrilla Carlos Marighella.
—Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
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The anonymous British artist chooses public spaces for his guerrilla work, and inadvertently created a paradox: His works can sell for millions, and people have been caught trying to get them off public walls to take to auction houses.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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