Below you will find example sentences with "armed men". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Armed Men in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: armed
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "armed men" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 10 heavily armed men fired at, ambushed by armed men, troops, group and attacked stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with armed forces, gay men, young men, armed police, armed robbery and armed wing, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with armed men
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
In another video, armed men are firing directly at cars trying to escape the festival grounds. (16 words)
It is further revealed that a group of armed men emerged and shot him multiple times. (16 words)
The armed men entered the bar and open gunfire on the occupants, hitting the schoolboy in the upper body. (19 words)
According to police, Gioser Luís Feliz, his father Sergio Luis Feliz Mancebo, a relative and a family friend had left Santiago’s Cibao International Airport on Wednesday and were heading to a nearby province when they were ambushed by armed men. (41 words)
He said Cameroonian border troops will arrest or kill armed men and jihadists hiding in local towns and villages, and Cameroon is allowing Chadian troops to cross the border in hot pursuit of Boko Haram militants and armed gangs. (39 words)
He had initially confessed to being one of the two armed men who approached a couple sitting in a parked car, forced the man out, and drove the woman to an abandoned house where both were sexually assaulted. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
He said Cameroonian border troops will arrest or kill armed men and jihadists hiding in local towns and villages, and Cameroon is allowing Chadian troops to cross the border in hot pursuit of Boko Haram militants and armed gangs.
Federal law prohibits intimidation at the polls and makes it illegal for any federal officer to order “troops or armed men” to polling places, unless needed to “repel armed enemies of the United States”.
The perceived unjust sentence for the Hammonds inspired Ammon Bundy to lead an armed standoff in early 2016, when a group of armed men broke into the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
Ten people from the same family – seven women and three men – were gunned down by a group of unknown armed men who stormed their home.
He pointed to Sunday’s quadruple shooting, in Waltham, which left four men hospitalized, after they were attacked by armed men on a playing field.
Andrew Ayton suggests a figure of around 2,500 men-at-arms : nobles and knights, heavily armoured and armed men, accompanied by their retinues.
According to police, Gioser Luís Feliz, his father Sergio Luis Feliz Mancebo, a relative and a family friend had left Santiago’s Cibao International Airport on Wednesday and were heading to a nearby province when they were ambushed by armed men.
A lawmaker has called on authorities in Eastern Equatoria State and the national government to hold accountable armed men who attacked and killed seven peace delegates in Lafon County over the weekend.
Armed men in military garb and distribution workers screamed at the crowd to turn back as they tried to pull people out of the crush.
He had initially confessed to being one of the two armed men who approached a couple sitting in a parked car, forced the man out, and drove the woman to an abandoned house where both were sexually assaulted.
He told the Daily Trust that the armed men were "suspected to be herders" and attacked the community of Mgban.
In another video, armed men are firing directly at cars trying to escape the festival grounds.
In his statement, Mr Rissen told gardaí he was in the kitchen when armed men came in wearing high-vis vests and balaclavas and scarves over their faces.
It is further revealed that a group of armed men emerged and shot him multiple times.
Mr Cook claimed his support van was raided by 'desperate blokes with guns' and that the armed men stole his team's cameras, mobile phones, some passports, and money they had.
Nobleza said some 10 heavily armed men fired at the troops before they could serve the search warrant, resulting to a firefight that lasted for about 25 minutes.
Once he explains how his actions were legally justified, he's so convincing that the marshal's armed men lower their guns without the marshal telling them to stand down.
Reports from the Mandeville police are that about 7 p.m., armed men pounced upon persons in a bar and robbed them of their properties.
Sekibo, a former Secretary to the Rivers State Government and Minister of Transport, said armed men, whom he accused of being police attache to the governor shot at the vehicle he was in.
The armed men entered the bar and open gunfire on the occupants, hitting the schoolboy in the upper body.