Below you will find example sentences with "innocent civilians". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Innocent Civilians in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: innocent
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 6 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "innocent civilians" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 22.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1 400 innocent civilians, are no innocent civilians in gaza, israel, killing and hamas stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with innocent people, innocent victims, palestinian civilians, innocent people, innocent victims and innocent man, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with innocent civilians
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Innocent civilians often pay the price. (6 words)
More murdering of innocent civilians by the fascist Russian dogs. (10 words)
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog suggested there are no innocent civilians in Gaza. (13 words)
Dana Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was interviewed by Sky News during a pro-Hamas event in the city on Sunday - a day after militants gunned down 260 innocent civilians at a music festival. (36 words)
Morocco, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, said it nonetheless "firmly condemns recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which have left numerous casualties among innocent civilians," a foreign ministry source said. (33 words)
In my opinion, one reason so many people rally behind the Palestinian cause is because their governments are actively, and outspokenly, supporting the mass killing of innocent civilians in Gaza through military aid. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Anthony Albanese said Hamas should be condemned for engaging in an ‘unprovoked attack’ on innocent civilians in Israel.
Dana Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was interviewed by Sky News during a pro-Hamas event in the city on Sunday - a day after militants gunned down 260 innocent civilians at a music festival.
Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, started the war against Israel and has used innocent civilians as human shields to protect themselves.
Hamas terrorists on paragliders entered Israel on October 7 and went on a killing rampage, killing over 1,400 innocent civilians.
Innocent civilians often pay the price.
In the comics Captain America saw the error of their ways and surrendered, to protect innocent civilians.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog suggested there are no innocent civilians in Gaza.
More murdering of innocent civilians by the fascist Russian dogs.
Morocco, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, said it nonetheless "firmly condemns recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which have left numerous casualties among innocent civilians," a foreign ministry source said.
Russia must permanently withdraw its forces, relinquish its illegal control of Ukrainian territory and end its barbaric attacks against innocent civilians.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez echoed his views, saying the "indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians" in the Palestinian territory was "completely unacceptable".
The billboards show a large picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a knife, accusing him of killing innocent civilians for a whole year.
The new film sees McCall come out of his retirement in Italy to deal with a rising mob family that goes too far in its persecution of innocent civilians.
Through their inhumane, brutal massacre of innocent civilians – so horrific some of the bodies have still not been identified – we truly understand the enemy we are facing.
We regretted very strongly and condemned what we regarded as the killing of innocent civilians on the 7th of October.
But I think we all also have to be mindful of the, you know, enormous toll that this has taken on innocent civilians in Gaza.
Expressing concern, Mahama drew parallels between the colonial era and the present, pointing to the unfortunate incidents where innocent civilians have lost their lives during electoral processes.
In my opinion, one reason so many people rally behind the Palestinian cause is because their governments are actively, and outspokenly, supporting the mass killing of innocent civilians in Gaza through military aid.
Israel has the right to defend itself against an existential threat, but too many innocent civilians are seeing their lives lost and their lives irreparably changed.
Israel will not easily be able to eliminate the fighters without killing innocent civilians.