Sentence examples for combatants from inspiring English sources
The word "combatants" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to people actively engaged in a fight or battle. For example: "The two sides were entrenched, and their respective combatants faced off against each other on the battlefield."
Ian Flintoff Oxford This election is becoming increasingly blurred as the facial expressions and gestures of the combatants become magnified under the unforgiving eye of the TV cameras and the spin doctors regurgitate the views of their representatives and add their own snide remarks.
The sheer proliferation of leading combatants has transformed this race.
The unutterable, ostentatious horror of Isis's actions – the latest of which is the beheading of the British aid worker David Haines – and the way in which it actively solicits disgust, now has to be reconciled with the knowledge that these combatants are educated, tech-savvy and enjoy a popular base.
Yes, the "combatants" in this conflict were re-enacting struggles from another era – albeit one that belonged to the piratical adventures of the 18th and 19th centuries.
But it raises hackles among those who are mostly unwitting combatants in the war.
The combatants included the poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon and Sheers's own great great uncle, William Cross.
While Bucca had few abuse complaints prior to its closure in 2009, it was seen by Iraqis as a potent symbol of an unjust policy, which swept up husbands, fathers, and sons – some of them non-combatants – in regular neighbourhood raids, and sent them away to prison for months or years.
He referred to the September 1989 statement in which "the IRA acknowledges that it carried out the attack in which Mrs Hazell, a non-combatant, was killed" and said that in 2002 "as an important contribution to the peace process, it offered its 'sincere apologies and condolences' to the families of all of those non-combatants who were killed or injured by it".
The married doctor from London, reported to have previously worked at the Royal Free hospital in the capital, had been in the country for about a year treating non-combatants injured by shelling and air strikes.
These laws try to sharpen two distinctions which are never entirely clear: between peace and armed conflict, and between soldiers and non-combatants.
All the claims at the time about some 500 dead being buried beneath the rubble, or carted off for secret burial in refrigerated lorries, turn out to have been so much nonsense.It now seems that the Palestinian death toll in Jenin was 52, of whom non-combatants numbered 14 (says Israel) or about 20 (say various human-rights organisations).
