guerrilla

Definition:
1. A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.
2. Used of independent armed resistance forces.

Use 'guerrilla' in a sentence:

• 1. Guerrillas avoid fighting set-piece battles.
• 2. There are 18 guerrilla marketing secrets, and they guarantee you will exceed your most optimistic projections.
• 3. They wanted to continue to fight. They spoke of guerrilla war against the Yankees.
• 4. Lenin dismissed guerrilla warfare as "adventurism."
• 5. The guerrillas exude confidence. Every town, they say, is under their control.
• 6. I've talked about this a lot in the past: the practice is called Guerrilla SOA.
• 7. Lawrence expounded on the military aspects of guerrilla warfare.
• 8. Most of the people living there sympathized with the guerrillas.
• 9. When proslavery forces sacked the "free state" town of Lawrence, guerrilla warfare ensued.
• 10. A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare.
• 11. In “Red Dawn, ” a group of high schoolers form a guerrilla resistance against an invading Soviet Union and its allies.
• 12. The Tigers, a small guerrilla force of around 5,000 fighters, have repeatedly resisted conventional attack.
• 13. The rebels appear to be making hit-and-run guerrilla style attacks on military targets.
• 14. They fought as volunteers with the Afghan guerrillas.
• 15. Three civilians were killed in guerrilla ambushes.
• 16. The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
• 17. He dismissed guerrilla warfare as 'adventurism.'
• 18. The government drove the guerrillas off with infantry and air strikes.
• 19. The guerrilla units mysteriously appear and disappear in operation behind enemy lines, without the enemy's being able to do anything about them.
• 20. The response of the FARC, the main guerrilla army, was a wave of attacks and ambushes.
• 21. The rebels would still be able to use guerrilla tactics to make the country ungovernable.
• 22. The guerrillas were holding out in the Paghman valley.
• 23. They are fired up, but the exposed desert scrub of Somalia is not suited to a long guerrilla campaign.
• 24. The withdrawal marks the start of a guerrilla war, it said warily.
• 25. The guerrillas would fight to the bitter end, he said, in order to achieve their main goal.
• 26. "This is not just a guerrilla war, and it's not an organised war with fronts," he said. "it's both."
• 27. The guerrilla\'s job is not to compete but to cooperate with other businesses.
• 28. The guerrilla raised his gun, and pang, another German soldier bit the dust.
• 29. In those impregnable mountains, the guerrillas could hold out for years.
• 30. There were reports last month of unsuccessful negotiations between guerrillas and commanders.
• 31. The guerrilla fighter managed to break out of the room where he was imprisoned.
• 32. Guerrillas attacked a patrol with hand grenades.
• 33. Delegates also discussed transforming them from a guerrilla force into a regular army.
• 34. Red Faction: Guerrilla.
• 35. The army lorries were sprayed with machine gun fire from guerrillas in the woods.
• 36. The lightning conquest was followed by a guerrilla and then a civil war.
• 37. The rival guerrilla groups had agreed to stop fighting and settle their differences peaceably.
• 38. These base camps were used by the PKK guerrillas to make forays into Turkey.
• 39. The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
• 40. The guerrillas threatened to kill their hostages.
• 41. The guerrillas ambushed them near the bridge.
• 42. The guerrillas were promised safe conduct out of the country.
• 43. A guerrilla war has lingered into its fourth decade.
• 44. Heavy fighting has been going on after the guerrillas had launched their offensive.
• 45. It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack.
• 46. The guerrillas attack at night.
• 47. Guerrilla groups are active in the province.
• 48. The rebels have waged a guerrilla war since 2001.
• 49. Their aim was to block guerrilla supply lines.