How to Use anarchist in a Sentence

anarchist

noun
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  • One man brought to his side con men, anarchists, crooks and racists.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024
  • In real life, an anarchist stabbed her in the heart with a nail file.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
  • A sexy anarchist movement, the Diggers, had sprung up, and the girls joined in.
    — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 28 May 2017
  • One of the first anarchist thinkers, William Godwin, wrote that old books are the bodies of ghosts.
    — Isabelle Frémeaux, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Caserta recorded the video in front of an anarchist's flag and a map of Michigan.
    — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • But these were just the young, anarchist-y activist circles of my youth.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Around 1,200 hooded and masked anarchists took part in the riot, police told the BBC.
    — Laignee Barron, Time, 3 May 2018
  • In the mid-60s, a group of artsy Dutch anarchists called Provo wanted to rage against the machine.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 18 June 2018
  • Frick was later shot and stabbed in his office by an anarchist who heard of the strike, but survived.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Left-wing or anarchist violence made up 4% of the deaths.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • The teen does not come across as an anarchist, Pipho previously told the Globe.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2020
  • The man in the video was accused by President Donald Trump of being an anarchist.
    — Ian McKenzie, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
  • The protesters say they were inspired by Nestor Makhno, who led a Ukrainian anarchist army in 1917.
    — Fortune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The students causing all the trouble have a lot in common with the average anarchist.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • Auburn can be the anarchists of college football’s final push.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Black-bloc anarchists, clad in gas masks and helmets, led the charge, joined by Gilets who released a rain of cobblestones that crackled on the armor of the riot cops.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Loyola-Chicago is the champion of the devout, the dark-horse disciples, the anarchists.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • But the truth about Antifa was told — approvingly — by Emmett Rensin, a left-anarchist, back in March.
    — Oliver Traldi, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Yet the media, which serve as fluffers for left-wing causes, will show up at every protest, even if ten anarchists are meeting for coffee.
    — Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Berlin, gritty and vibrant, has always been a draw for anarchists and artists—families fare well here, too.
    — Vogue, 5 June 2018
  • Anarchists also threw at least one Molotov cocktail, a police spokesman said in an email.
    — Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 10 May 2017
  • Ngo has made a name for himself as a critical reporter of Antifa, and was attacked by the anarchist group nearly two years ago.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The walls of the Western World were collapsing at the feet of the anarchist punk kids, dressed up like post-apocalyptic greasers in their tattered Levi's, soiled T-shirts, chains, and leather jackets.
    — William Goodman, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2017
  • This was built by a guy who is apparently an anarchist and lives relatively off the grid.
    — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The fourth Lyons, Edith, is a globe-trotting anarchist activist, who, in the first episode, witnesses that bomb go off, as her family follows along on TV.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • An anarchist murdered a priest in front of the altar at St. Elizabeth’s, also in Denver.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • Without them, the state would be unable to provide the public goods that today’s sheltered anarchists take for granted.
    — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The last few years have been good ones for the smiling mask made famous by V for Vendetta, the 2005 movie about an anarchist who blows up the UK parliament to destroy a fascist tyranny.
    — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2019
  • From the anarchist’s perspective, the true infernal machine that had been unleashed was James Watt’s steam engine.
    — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
  • The socialist and anarchist was married to one of the protestors in the infamous Haymarket Square labor protest in Chicago.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 2 Sep. 2024

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