Below you will find example sentences with "revolutionary guards". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Revolutionary Guards in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: guards
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "revolutionary guards" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as against the revolutionary guards, and the revolutionary guards see the, iran, force and iranian stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with security guards, prison guards, border guards, security guards, prison guards and border guards, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with revolutionary guards
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The Kataib Hezbollah is a Shiite militia founded in 2007 with the support of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. (18 words)
He was asleep, believing himself to be safe under the watchful protection of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards. (18 words)
Demonstrators waved Iran's monarchist-era tricolour flag and called on the bloc to impose tougher measures against the Revolutionary Guards. (21 words)
Qods Force refers to an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that is in charge of the Guards’ overseas operations, and Hezbollah is an Iran-backed, heavily armed Shi’ite Muslim group that forms part of Lebanon’s coalition government. (43 words)
Tehran has vowed to carry out revenge attacks against Israel after a missile strike flattened a building used as a base of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Damascus, killing five Guards and an unspecified number of Syrian troops. (39 words)
The European Parliament last week called on the EU to list the Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist entity”, blaming it for allegedly repression of protests in the Islamic Republic and the supply of drones to Russia. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1979, revolutionary leader Khomeini established the Pasdaran, the Revolutionary Guards, as a protective force against the country’s regular army, who Khomeini suspected of being disloyal.
They were subordinate to the Revolutionary Guards, and they made up most of the manpower that was used in the Revolutionary Guard's attacks.
Tehran has vowed to carry out revenge attacks against Israel after a missile strike flattened a building used as a base of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Damascus, killing five Guards and an unspecified number of Syrian troops.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accepts full responsibility for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner, a senior commander of the guards said in a video posted online by state TV on Saturday.
Qods Force refers to an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that is in charge of the Guards’ overseas operations, and Hezbollah is an Iran-backed, heavily armed Shi’ite Muslim group that forms part of Lebanon’s coalition government.
A British minister said on Thursday Britain was actively considering proscribing the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization but had not reached a final decision.
As per reports, senior western intelligence officials said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force was preparing a drone attack against Israeli-owned civilian merchant ships travelling in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
Demonstrators waved Iran's monarchist-era tricolour flag and called on the bloc to impose tougher measures against the Revolutionary Guards.
In August 2022, the United States struck militant groups linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in northeastern Syria, killing at least two fighters.
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu listens to Iran's Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force Commander Amirali Hajizadeh as they visit an Iranian aerospace industry's exhibition in Tehran, Iran, on Sep 20, 2023.
The European Parliament last week called on the EU to list the Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist entity”, blaming it for allegedly repression of protests in the Islamic Republic and the supply of drones to Russia.
The fact that Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards see the solution to the challenge of Baluchistan and Abdul Hamid purely in terms of more effective suppression methods bodes ill for the future.
The Kataib Hezbollah is a Shiite militia founded in 2007 with the support of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
A staunch enemy of the group, Soleimani headed the Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm, overseeing military operations across the Middle East.
Central to Iran’s strategy is the protection and expansion of its transnational terrorist network, facilitated by the Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force.
He was asleep, believing himself to be safe under the watchful protection of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
In August 2022, the United States charged a member of the Revolutionary Guards with plotting to assassinate former US National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Iran attacked in response to an April 1 strike in Damascus which levelled the five-storey consular annexe of the Iranian embassy and killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals.
Iran Daily cited a document from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as saying that NED used its ties with Masih Alinejad to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs during the hijab protests.
Iran has accused Israel of an airstrike that killed five Iranian military figures, including the chief of intelligence in Syria for the overseas arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, known as the Quds Force.