guerilla
/ɡɚˈɪlə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas;—an internecive war between the gamekeepers and marauders of game;—the whole country flung into brawls and convulsions, for the unjust and exorbitant pleasures of country gentlemen."
- "1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott"
- "From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls."
- "At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight."
- "He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside.[…] "Comrades," he said, "we are all guerilla soldiers who have joined hands to protect our own people, not to oppress them."
- "KYODO also states that, according to Indian intelligence sources, "the guerillas were sent from their training bases around Khasgar in Xingjiang^([sic – meaning Xinjiang]) Province [in China] to the sensitive areas bordering Afghanistan"."