On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Paramilitary. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as force or personnel and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Paramilitary in a sentence
Paramilitary meaning
- A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power.
- A member of a paramilitary group.
Synonyms of Paramilitary
Using Paramilitary
- The main meaning on this page is: A group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion, but which do not represent the formal forces of a sovereign power. | A member of a paramilitary group.
- Useful related words include: force, personnel, paramilitary force, paramilitary unit.
- In the example corpus, paramilitary often appears in combinations such as: the paramilitary, paramilitary group, paramilitary rapid.
Context around Paramilitary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Paramilitary
- In this selection, "paramilitary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, previous, strong, sudanese, rapid, forces and groups stand out and add context to how "paramilitary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the paramilitary rapid support and between the paramilitary group and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "paramilitary" sits close to words such as assemble, bounty and counselling, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with paramilitary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Paramilitary Zimbabwe maintains a strong paramilitary force armed with spears. (10 words)
But the number of paramilitary forces changes greatly between nations. (10 words)
A Wagner Group paramilitary forces’ vehicle in the Russian city of Rostov on Saturday. (14 words)
A weeks-long power struggle erupted into battles Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (42 words)
In recent debates about casement for instance there are repeated pile ons with allegations of Windsor being a cess pit for sectarianism, Paramilitary flags etc and always the same claim that we need to move on and embrace a new future. (41 words)
A history of previous paramilitary attacks on British military border posts “doesn’t mean putting in a normal border relationship when one party is no longer in the EU will bring back paramilitary activity”, Gardiner said. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A history of previous paramilitary attacks on British military border posts “doesn’t mean putting in a normal border relationship when one party is no longer in the EU will bring back paramilitary activity”, Gardiner said.
Paramilitary Zimbabwe maintains a strong paramilitary force armed with spears.
Abdallah lives with her seven children in Omdurman, one of the three cities that makes up Sudan's wider capital and has seen frequent fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
According to reports, the Sudanese paramilitary forces claim to have seized the presidential palace and set the civilian aircraft ablaze in an apparent coup attempt.
A fragile accord between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ripped open in April.
Along the road linking Khartoum and el-Gezira, villagers are fleeing from place to place as Sudanese troops exchange fire with paramilitary fighters.
A month after clashes began between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces, air strikes continue to pummel Sudan’s major cities while on the ground street battles rage.
A Telegram channel associated with the paramilitary Wagner Group, the ‘Grey Zone’, has that Yevgeny Prigozhin was indeed killed in a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday.
At least 56 people, including an Indian, have been killed in clashes between the military and paramilitary groups in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other areas.
A Wagner Group paramilitary forces’ vehicle in the Russian city of Rostov on Saturday.
A weeks-long power struggle erupted into battles Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
But the number of paramilitary forces changes greatly between nations.
Crunching over bullet casings, they navigated a gantlet of check posts manned by jittery fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, some wearing bandages or limping.
Despite these similarities, children who are criminally exploited by paramilitary groups do not yet benefit from the protection and support that the national referral mechanism offers to victims of county lines drugs networks.
Far from bringing reconciliation between the two main traditions, the GFA keeps the political temperature high, which explains why 116 peace walls are now in place and paramilitary organisations remain in being.
Fighting between the paramilitary group and the army broke out in the capital on Saturday morning, and has extended to several parts of the country, including Merowe.
However, there appears to be increasing tensions between the paramilitary group and Moscow’s regular forces.
In recent debates about casement for instance there are repeated pile ons with allegations of Windsor being a cess pit for sectarianism, Paramilitary flags etc and always the same claim that we need to move on and embrace a new future.
International human rights groups and the United Nations have condemned the atrocities committed in since the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on 15 April.
Internet access was briefly blocked in Sudan on Sunday amid the ongoing clashes between the military and the powerful RSF paramilitary.
Common combinations with paramilitary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: