How to Use Special Forces in a Sentence
Special Forces
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All four of the Special Forces soldiers made it out alive.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
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Over the door of King’s office hangs his Special Forces banner.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
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Habib’s service in the Special Forces left him with metal plates in his head, and scarring to his face, legs and shoulders.
—Beth Bailey, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2023
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The contract is for Hero-30 munitions, which will be used by Special Forces.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
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The Baron had become a place where favors—a coffee carried from the canteen, agreeing to not film the faces of Special Forces soldiers—could get a gate opened when it was not meant to be.
—Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
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The baby had been pulled from the rubble two years earlier after her parents and five siblings were killed during a joint U.S. Special Forces raid.
—Martha Mendoza, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
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Tops Knives has roots in the military community, and this field knife is as prepared for anything as a Special Forces soldier.
—Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
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Some have proposed Special Forces raids, others drone strikes, others naval blockades.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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People sometimes see pictures of all the fancy equipment that Special Forces soldiers carry but fail to recognize that the gear is just tools in the toolbox.
—Zach Fuller, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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Carmen was a Special Forces medic who deployed several times in the couple’s five years together.
—Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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There was a kindred spirit that was shared with Special Forces personnel and their families in attendance.
—Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2020
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These are the same flashlights used by Special Forces, especially since the tactical head can be used to shatter glass and provide force to stop intruders when needed.
—Greta Good, Chron, 14 Apr. 2021
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Ukraine said its Special Forces struck a command center near Izium, destroying dozens of tanks and armored vehicles.
—New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
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After graduating from Airborne and Ranger schools, he was selected for Special Forces in 1962.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
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In 2015, Israeli Special Forces likely made history by using a sniper rifle mounted on a commercial drone to take out a target.
—Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
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James Henderson, 33, a British volunteer, had been a Special Forces officer.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
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On Thursday, the Special Forces alum, 37, shared a photo from his outdoor holiday celebration.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
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This is a pretty standard rule for reality TV shows, including Special Forces.
—Jamie Ballard, Women's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
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The ongoing risk was confined to former U.S. military installations, such as the old Special Forces base in the valley, where the chemicals had been stored, loaded onto aircraft, and spilled.
—George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
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Lopez, an Army Special Forces combat veteran has suffered multiple traumatic events and was injured by a roadside bomb where 19 of his fellow soldiers died.
—Aria Jones, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
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Current operators are typically Special Forces types and have always been happy to acquire Switchblades via a less routine process, but Nawabi would like to see the munition become a program of record.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 3 May 2022
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Ben Clay, a former Special Forces soldier working on the case with other military veterans, sent her instructions for how to distill and purify water from non-potable sources such as toilet tanks.
—Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
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This is 30 Special Forces veterans, folks who have combat experience, folks who are relatively in really good physical shape.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
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Meanwhile, the airline brings in an experienced troubleshooter (Tony Goldwyn), a former Special Forces operative, who promptly hires a team of veteran mercenaries to perform a rescue mission.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
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