Below you will find example sentences with "armed wing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Armed Wing in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: armed
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "armed wing" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the armed wing of hamas, a knu armed wing the karen, hamas, fighters and brigades stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with armed forces, left wing, armed police, armed police, armed robbery and armed men, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with armed wing
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
It was alleged that Hamas' armed wing, the… pic. (9 words)
Ronnie Kasrils was a founding member of the African National Congress’ (ANC) armed wing in apartheid South Africa. (18 words)
Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the explosion, in a statement on its Telegram account. (19 words)
He is seen as a hard-liner with closer ties to Hamas' armed wing than his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in an explosion in Iran's capital last month that was widely blamed on Israel and could spark an all-out regional war. (45 words)
Mehrtens, from Christchurch, was captured early Tuesday by independence fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Organization, who stormed his single-engine plane shortly after it landed at Paro’s small airport. (39 words)
The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said their fighters were engaged in battles with thei forces outside and around the vicinity of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, though Hamas denies any presence inside the facility. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Abu Ubaida, a spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, said the hostages were released in part “for humanitarian reasons” in response to Qatari mediation efforts.
According to the source, the Palestinian Authority has noticed that there is increased cooperation between PIJ gunmen and members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah faction headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
A commander from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the KIO’s armed wing, said changes are made to the KIO’s central executive committee every four years and Gen N’Ban La was in poor health.
Al Qassam Brigades - the armed wing of Hamas - on Sunday said that it fired 20 rockets from Lebanon on two Israeli settlements.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated southern Gaza, destroying two bulldozers and a tank and forcing the raiders to withdraw.
He said the People’s Defense Forces — the armed wing of the National Unity Government — had terrorized residents into supporting them, killing Buddhist monks, teachers and other people, while the military sought peace and stability.
Mehrtens, from Christchurch, was captured early Tuesday by independence fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Organization, who stormed his single-engine plane shortly after it landed at Paro’s small airport.
Ronnie Kasrils was a founding member of the African National Congress’ (ANC) armed wing in apartheid South Africa.
Saw Nerdah Mya, the former chief of a KNU armed wing, the Karen National Defense Organization, broke away and established the Kaw Thoo Lei Army in July last year.
The leader of the junta, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has said he will crush the resistance by the People’s Defence Force, the NUG’s armed wing.
Australia declared Hezbollah to be a terrorist organisation in 2021, having included its armed wing on the terror list since 2003.
DA leader John Steenhuisen has called into question MK party members' understanding of the history behind “the real uMkhonto we Sizwe”, the ANC's armed wing.
During the struggle, Pheko was imprisoned for underground activities with the PAC’s armed wing, Poqo (later called the Azanian People’s Liberation Army), and was also detained by the settler colonial states of Rhodesia and Portuguese Mozambique.
Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the explosion, in a statement on its Telegram account.
Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that has been ruling Gaza, and the Islamic Jihad armed wing have said their fighters killed several Israeli soldiers in ambushes during that same period.
He is seen as a hard-liner with closer ties to Hamas' armed wing than his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in an explosion in Iran's capital last month that was widely blamed on Israel and could spark an all-out regional war.
It was alleged that Hamas' armed wing, the… pic.
The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said their fighters were engaged in battles with thei forces outside and around the vicinity of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, though Hamas denies any presence inside the facility.
The armed wing of Hamas said it fired a rocket towards an armoured vehicle after setting up an ambush.
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said Israeli forces killed five of its fighters in the occupied West Bank city.