civilian

Example Sentences

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The civilians were first rounded up in a church and then taken across the border to Russia, he told the BBC.

From BBC

Her husband, a civilian, was detained for the first 3½ years of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cambodia’s minister of information, Neth Pheaktra, denied that the country’s military has used civilian buildings on the border for its operations and rejected that the buildings targeted by the Thais were used for online scams.

From The Wall Street Journal

The military ruled Myanmar for most of its post-independence history before a 10-year interlude saw a civilian government take the reins in a burst of optimism and reform.

From Barron's

But as the civilian government battled rebellions and internal divisions, it handed power to the military in 1958 for a two-year caretaker spell.

From Barron's