How do you use Brownshirts in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Brownshirts meaning
plural of Brownshirt
Using Brownshirts
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Brownshirt
- In the example corpus, brownshirts often appears in combinations such as: paramilitary brownshirts.
Context around Brownshirts
- Average sentence length in these examples: 34.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brownshirts
- In this selection, "brownshirts" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 34.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paramilitary, day, antifa, sort, despite and organization stand out and add context to how "brownshirts" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include army of brownshirts who did and its antifa brownshirts to form. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brownshirts" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brownshirts
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The surveillance state has been firmly cemented into place, and our college students have risen to fill the roles of modern-day Brownshirts. (23 words)
Himmler distrusted the SA and came to deplore the ‘rabble-rousing’ brownshirts (despite once having been a member) and what they considered to be the indecent sexual deviants amid its leadership. (31 words)
Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' own paramilitary Brownshirts organization; the best-known victim was Ernst Röhm, the SA's leader and one of Hitler's longtime supporters and allies. (36 words)
Trump’s claims of having the 2020 election “stolen” and his remarks that Democrats are out to get him are reminiscent of Hitler blaming communists for the Reichstag fire in 1933 when it was his private army of “brownshirts” who did the deed. (43 words)
With a few clicks on social media, the left can rally its Antifa brownshirts to form an insta-mob to descend anywhere at any time to do anything they want, while we on the right stand around dumbfounded. (38 words)
The Sturmabteilung, that is, the paramilitary Brownshirts, sort of like the Proud Boys plus Robert Bowers plus Cesar Sayoc — ideological killers of Jews and other targets — pulled off the 1938 Kristallnacht, the attack on synagogues and Jewish businesses. (38 words)
Example sentences (6)
The surveillance state has been firmly cemented into place, and our college students have risen to fill the roles of modern-day Brownshirts.
With a few clicks on social media, the left can rally its Antifa brownshirts to form an insta-mob to descend anywhere at any time to do anything they want, while we on the right stand around dumbfounded.
Trump’s claims of having the 2020 election “stolen” and his remarks that Democrats are out to get him are reminiscent of Hitler blaming communists for the Reichstag fire in 1933 when it was his private army of “brownshirts” who did the deed.
The Sturmabteilung, that is, the paramilitary Brownshirts, sort of like the Proud Boys plus Robert Bowers plus Cesar Sayoc — ideological killers of Jews and other targets — pulled off the 1938 Kristallnacht, the attack on synagogues and Jewish businesses.
Himmler distrusted the SA and came to deplore the ‘rabble-rousing’ brownshirts (despite once having been a member) and what they considered to be the indecent sexual deviants amid its leadership.
Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' own paramilitary Brownshirts organization; the best-known victim was Ernst Röhm, the SA's leader and one of Hitler's longtime supporters and allies.
Common combinations with brownshirts
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: