Wondering how to use Terrorist in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as violent or radical.
Terrorist meaning
- A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
- An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Using Terrorist
- The main meaning on this page is: A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals. | An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
- Useful related words include: violent, radical.
- In the example corpus, terrorist often appears in combinations such as: terrorist attacks, the terrorist, terrorist organization.
Context around Terrorist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Terrorist
- In this selection, "terrorist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shabaab, qaeda, headline, group, attacks and activity stand out and add context to how "terrorist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a comprehensive terrorist organization with, a pakistani terrorist group though, terrorist organization, terrorist group and terrorist activities. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "terrorist" sits close to words such as diet, duo and indiana, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with terrorist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was a terrorist in the middle of planning more terrorist activity. (12 words)
These funds—found inside a senior Hamas terrorist’s residence— were designated for terrorist activity. (15 words)
Pakistan blames the recent upturn in terrorist attacks on terrorist sanctuaries in Afghanistan under the Taliban. (16 words)
And thereafter when they had to take the news, they rather chose the headline “‘Terrorist’ Shooting” as if there is that necessity to quote ‘terrorist,’ as if ‘terrorist’ is a strange word to address a white “shooter” who has done something morally wrong. (43 words)
The Russian assistance, which began in September 2015 at the official request of the Syrian government, has proved effective as Syrians continue to recapture key areas from remnants of the Daesh terrorist group and other foreign-backed terrorist factions. (39 words)
PIJ said the attack was launched in response to terrorist prisoners being placed in solitary confinement after they were seen celebrating several deadly terrorist attacks in Jerusalem that left seven people dead and at least five others wounded. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The al-Shabaab terrorist group is an armed group affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network and has claimed responsibility for many terrorist operations that have killed hundreds of people in Africa.
And thereafter when they had to take the news, they rather chose the headline “‘Terrorist’ Shooting” as if there is that necessity to quote ‘terrorist,’ as if ‘terrorist’ is a strange word to address a white “shooter” who has done something morally wrong.
We’re living in the Age of Non-Terrorist Terrorism, in which anyone can be deemed a “terrorist,” or a “suddenly self-radicalized terrorist,” regardless of whether they have any actual connection to organized terrorism.
A terrorist organization cannot be fought by using another terrorist organization," the ministry's sources told the daily.
Officials portrayed Cromitie as the ringleader of a “chilling plot” among “extremely violent men” loyal to a Pakistani terrorist group — though the government later decided not to present any evidence about foreign terrorist organizations at trial.
Pakistan blames the recent upturn in terrorist attacks on terrorist sanctuaries in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
PIJ said the attack was launched in response to terrorist prisoners being placed in solitary confinement after they were seen celebrating several deadly terrorist attacks in Jerusalem that left seven people dead and at least five others wounded.
Since the early 1980s, Iran helped build Lebanese Hezbollah into a comprehensive terrorist organization with global reach and top-tier capabilities that has launched terrorist attacks in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
The MHA said the TRF is recruiting youth through online medium for furtherance of terrorist activities, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorist and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.
The Russian assistance, which began in September 2015 at the official request of the Syrian government, has proved effective as Syrians continue to recapture key areas from remnants of the Daesh terrorist group and other foreign-backed terrorist factions.
These funds—found inside a senior Hamas terrorist’s residence— were designated for terrorist activity.
The terrorist attack whose responsibility was claimed by the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh generated a big wave of condemnation at the international and national levels.
The terrorist carried out the deadly shooting attack together with another terrorist on October 11, 2022, during which a Givati infantry patrol soldier, First Sergeant Ido Baruch, was killed.
Besides being one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the Valley in the last many years, the area where the attack took place has widely been believed to be free of any terrorist footprint.
In court documents, prosecutors allege that sometime between July 1 and July 29, the two men knowingly facilitated a terrorist activity and were knowingly helping the Islamic State enhance its ability to carry out terrorist activity.
One operation saw an IDF fighter jet striking and eliminating a terrorist cell attempting to approach a military compound, while another incident involved precise sniper fire to eliminate a terrorist cell nearing IDF soldiers.
Recently, the country has seen a rising number of terrorist incidents and "operational activities," Nutt said, adding that a total of 168 people had been charged with terrorist offences since 2014.
Sinwar’s deputy added that the group is demanding the release of 50 terrorist prisoners for each female soldier and 30 terrorist prisoners for each civilian.
He was a terrorist in the middle of planning more terrorist activity.
Instead, he argues, the gap could be plugged by amending the s.58 offence so that “terrorist propaganda” may be classified as material which is “likely to be useful” to furthering a terrorist purpose.
Phrases with terrorist
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with terrorist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- terrorist attacks 26×
- the terrorist 26×
- terrorist organization 22×
- of terrorist 22×
- terrorist attack 21×
- terrorist group 20×
- as terrorist 11×
- terrorist activities 10×
- terrorist groups 10×
- in terrorist 7×