Sentence examples for are combatants from inspiring English sources
noun
An armed fighter.
- Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.
Comedians are combatants: they "kill," they "bomb," they "destroy".
(Hamas's position is that all Israelis — whom it refers to simply as Jews — including Israeli children, are combatants).
(Hamas's position is that all Israelis whom it refers to simply as Jews including Israeli children, are combatants).
You've got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans".
"The U.S. government may have reliable information that certain individuals are combatants, but are being counted as noncombatants by nongovernmental organizations," the report said, cryptically.
And, he said, "They believe women, children, firemen and policemen are combatants in the war they are waging against our culture".
They were combatants, dying on battlefields.
Some were combatants, many others were children.
The dead could not be combatants.
There was no immediate breakdown of how many were combatants.
Israel says 1,166 Palestinians died and that most were combatants.
