guerrilla - use in sentences
Converse of object
- kill: It is costing the United States $ 400,000 to kill one guerrilla - enough to pay the annual income of 8,000 Vietnamese.
- fight: Turkey fought Kurdish guerrillas for 15 years in the southeast of the nation.
- join: General Lemnitzer called for the Brigade to join the guerrillas in the Escambray Mountains.
- support: In addition it provides invaluable insights in how to train and support guerrillas in the field.
- train: However, they also had to fight an enemy they could not see communist guerrillas trained by Mao.
Adjective modifier
- leftist: He initiated informal contacts with leftist guerrillas in neighboring Colombia.
- Kurdish: Turkey fought Kurdish guerrillas for 15 years in the southeast of the nation.
- Colombian: It is alleged that Colombian guerrillas were involved in her kidnap last September.
- communist: However, they also had to fight an enemy they could not see communist guerrillas trained by Mao.
- Albanian: The disarming of ethnic Albanian guerrillas, no less essential to peace, will not be easy.
Modifies a noun
- warfare: He wrote a book on the guerrilla warfare, which had big impact on Latin America.
- fighter: Also " the guerrilla fighter will carry out his action in wild places of small population.
- tactic: In the 19th century, peoples of the Balkans used guerrilla tactics to fight the Ottoman empire.
- insurgency: Guerrilla insurgency was increasing in Britain's most profitable colony, Malaysia.
- war: For more than ten years they waged a Marxist style guerrilla war against Rhodesia's racist regime, under Prime Minister Ian Smith.
- army: Its guerrilla army has conducted the longest armed struggle in Kurdish history.
Noun used with modifier
- islamist: Its government has battled Islamist guerrillas, some of whom were based in Afghanistan.
- wing: The war on drugs is clearly focused on those areas where the left wing guerrilla movements are located.
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