Below you will find example sentences with "islamic jihad". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Islamic Jihad in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: islamic
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 18
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.9 words

Words in this phrase

islamic jihad

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • islamic can mean: Of, pertaining to, originating in, characteristic of, or deriving from Muslims or Islam. Frequent word
  • jihad can mean: A holy war undertaken by Muslims. Less frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

against the islamic jihad militant group 1× and palestinian islamic jihad didn t 1× as palestinian islamic jihad stepped up 1× because palestinian islamic jihad was the 1× by the islamic jihad militant group 1× criticized by islamic jihad for calling 1× damascus based islamic jihad s chief 1× groups hamas islamic jihad who also 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a member of 1× a truce between 1× according to haaretz 1× air strikes also 1× all the raison 1× an estimated 500 1×

Common sentence endings:

any political aspirations 1× dying in gaza 1× executed the attack 1× group islamic jihad 1× group it added 1× identify soft targets 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

palestinian 16× group 11× israel 9× hamas 7× gaza 6× militant 6× rocket 4× ceasefire 3× official 3× didn 3× citation 2× september 2×

Related phrases

islamic republic islamic revolution islamic bank palestinian islamic radical islamic

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around islamic:

islamic republic 19× islamic revolution 12× islamic bank 10× palestinian islamic 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

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Just after it in the phrase index:

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Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

islamic republic islamic revolution islamic bank

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "islamic jihad" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as against the islamic jihad militant group, and palestinian islamic jihad didn t, palestinian, group and israel stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with islamic republic, islamic revolution, islamic bank, islamic republic, islamic revolution and islamic bank, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with islamic jihad

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Because Palestinian Islamic Jihad was the easier target. (8 words)

Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another armed Palestinian group, claimed to have captured "numerous soldiers" from Israel. (16 words)

Air strikes also hit a weapons storage facility, and an operational command centre used by the Islamic Jihad militant group, it added. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

Damascus-based Islamic Jihad's chief Ziyad al Nakhla received a call from senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati in which the latter said he supported the "resistance of the Palestinian people, a statement by the Iranian-backed militant group said. (41 words)

A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021. (40 words)

Another key group playing a central role in the fighting with Israel, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, boycotted the gathering to protest the detentions by the Palestinian Authority of its members, according to the group's leader, Ziyad al-Nakhala. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was unhappy with the ceasefire. citation citation In September 2005, Hamas was criticized by Islamic Jihad for calling off rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza.

An estimated 500 terrorists belonging to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly received specialized combat training in September from the Quds Force, the special operations unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

General Suleimani also becomes very involved with Palestinian militant groups — Hamas, Islamic Jihad — who also see an alliance between their ideologies and Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to Haaretz, the Israel Prisons Service is on alert in case of protests by Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian security prisoners, sending firefighting teams to various prisons.

Air strikes also hit a weapons storage facility, and an operational command centre used by the Islamic Jihad militant group, it added.

All the raison d’etre of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is to slaughter as many Jews as possible, and they don’t have any political aspirations.

A member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group walks in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, on April 17, 2022, during a media tour amid escalating violence with Israel.

Another key group playing a central role in the fighting with Israel, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, boycotted the gathering to protest the detentions by the Palestinian Authority of its members, according to the group's leader, Ziyad al-Nakhala.

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Aside from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad the attack, the “moderate” Fatah in it, and the official Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who executed the attack.

As Palestinian Islamic Jihad stepped up its rocket attacks against Israel last week, the BBC was busy cooking up a new angle from which to cover the conflict: how to apportion blame for cancer patients dying in Gaza.

A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.

Because Palestinian Islamic Jihad was the easier target.

By Ramzy Baroud When Israel launched a war against the Gaza Strip in August 2022, it declared that its target was the Islamic Jihad only.

Damascus-based Islamic Jihad's chief Ziyad al Nakhla received a call from senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati in which the latter said he supported the "resistance of the Palestinian people, a statement by the Iranian-backed militant group said.

Despite this claim, growing evidence has emerged that the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was caused by a failed rocket launch by terrorist group Islamic Jihad.

Earlier on Sunday, the Islamic Jihad announced martyrdom of Al-Aswad, 31, was shot dead by agents of the Zionist enemy in the Damascus countryside.

Early on Thursday, the Israeli military carried out strikes against the Islamic Jihad militant group and said a senior commander in charge of the group’s rocket launching force.

Egypt, a longtime mediator in Gaza, secured the agreement of both Israel and Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad to its latest ceasefire proposal, an Egyptian security official said.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another armed Palestinian group, claimed to have captured "numerous soldiers" from Israel.

Hamas didn’t provide the guns, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades didn’t offer any training and Palestinian Islamic Jihad didn’t help Khayri or Aliyat identify soft targets.

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