How to Use warlord in a Sentence

warlord

noun
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  • Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord Jasper tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The warlord had abandoned his men and fled to Pakistan.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Khan didn’t need to puff up his arms or chest to play the part of an enforcer to a medieval warlord.
    — Hazlitt, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In 2015, Elba played the fierce and troubled warlord in Beasts of No Nation.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Some, though, were taken to the nearest large city and pressed into service of the warlord or king who had won them.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Syria was plunged into chaos, and Jerash was briefly ruled by warlords.
    — Eva Tobalina, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Prigozhin is no Lenin, but a warlord with pettier aims.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Watch the Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who like Prigozhin runs a large private militia.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • Evmolpus was a Thracian king and famous warlord who could talk with the gods.
    — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2022
  • The lawsuit also names Khalifa Hifter, the Libyan warlord who brought the mercenary group to Libya in 2018.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • What’s next for the caterer turned warlord is uncertain.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
  • With the arrival of a rebel warlord (Emeka Amakeze) on the run from his violent past, and the death of Mama Efe, a new status quo emerges in the village.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Russians shuttled warlords to peace talks with the government, helping lead to a deal with more than a dozen armed groups to stop fighting.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • And many freestyle skaters thrive as their warlord’s favorite jester-acrobat.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Those warlords fought for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
    — Staff Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • But the story will feature the character helping refugees being run off their land by a warlord.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Most of the main party leaders today were warlords themselves.
    — Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • To thank him, Lukashenko has allowed the Russian leader to use his country as a base for weapons and troops and now as a dumping ground for an unwanted warlord.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Dan Chase is living a quiet, off-the-grid life when a major mistake from his past — involving an Afghani warlord with a decades-old grudge — sends him back on the run.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
  • Black women standing up to white women, Wiley seems to say, is like a widow going up against a warlord.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Those warlords fought each other for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
  • In Abercrombie’s fiction, the most masterful spy can miss what’s right in front of her nose and the most cunning warlord can be outwitted by a thin scrap of a girl.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • His pleas for permission to battle the Crabfeeder go ignored, out of fear that this would provoke open war with the powerful Free Cities that fund the warlord’s fleet.
    — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The squabble conjures memories of the 1990s, when warlords who are still on the political stage fought for power.
    — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In his absence, the warlord’s businesses have already begun to crumble, with his media empire the first to fall apart.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
  • No side won, all of them committed atrocities, and many of the warlords are still in power, having exchanged their fatigues for suits and ties.
    — Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The hilltop castle was first built by warlord Shigenobu Matsura in 1599, when the port city of Hirado was a rare cosmopolitan hub for foreign trade.
    — Richard Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Their battles mark an old-school clash between rival warlords, squabbling for turf and power.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Japanese troops quickly deposed the local Chinese warlord and seized the major cities in Manchuria.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022

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