How to Use terrorism in a Sentence

terrorism

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  • They have been arrested for acts of terrorism.
  • Pakistan since 9/11 is a front line in the struggle against terrorism.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • The terrorism threat Pakistan faces is one of its own making.
    — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Moscow has called the attack an act of terrorism that left two people dead.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This is terrorism and Israel has the right to defend itself.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • They were charged with terrorism and face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The crash wasn’t believed to be terrorism, and the driver was taken into custody.
    — Pan Pylas, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • This being a world where terrorism is all too common, some of those who’d come to see the wreckage had wondered whether the bridge might have been attacked.
    — Peter Nicholas, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, the police arrested a party member and charged him with terrorism in connection with the burning of the truck and the flag.
    — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Blaming victims of terrorism for their own deaths is wrong.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • While the first two seasons dealt with terrorism coming to Europe, Season 3 takes the viewer to its place of origin.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The lesson: Don’t give billions of dollars to people who fund terrorism.
    — WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The controversy over the pope’s ‘terrorism’ assertion The pope’s comment set off a firestorm.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Pick at the stories and legends built up over the long years of the global war on terrorism, and their utter falsity eventually comes to the fore.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Niger remains a key nation in the fight against Islamic terrorism and in securing peace in the region.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 July 2023
  • Four men appeared in a Moscow court Saturday and were charged with terrorism in the concert hall attack.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • This was the first school shooting where the perpetrator was convicted on terrorism charges.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The group was formed last week and is intended to meet four times per year to provide insight on issues such as the fentanyl epidemic, terrorism, and the border.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Taking a new direction, the setting shifts from terrorism to old foe Russia.
    — Allen Pierleoni -, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The guards eventually forced her to falsely confess to crimes against the state, including terrorism.
    — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Police said the shooting had no connection to terrorism.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In 2021, Slotkin chaired a House subcommittee hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The mouthpiece of Khamenei, Kayhan, also seemed to revel in the massacre of Jews and foreign nationals on Oct. 7, with a view toward stoking more terrorism.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • In the years since, Kiriakou has written and lectured widely, blasting U.S. behavior in the war on terrorism.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Mader likens the pandemics' impact on infection control to the impact 9/11 had on terrorism.
    — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Crumbley pleaded guilty to all of the charges leveled against him, including murder and terrorism.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Those join the already more than a dozen people who have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism since December.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The sheer brutality witnessed calls for a unified stand against terrorism and hatred.
    — Shelley Zimmerman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But people associated with these groups could still be on the terrorism watchlist.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But the Chinese government is, in effect, backing Hamas—and therefore terrorism.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023

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