How to Use active duty in a Sentence

active duty

noun
  • In layman’s terms, that translates to two years of active duty, minimum, before the clock starts on a potential athletic career.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 June 2024
  • Death of a member of the Armed Forces from that state who dies while serving on active duty.
    Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2024
  • Around 200 members of Hezbollah have been killed, many of them not on active duty.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The officer remained at the crash site and is still on active duty, police said.
    Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • According to the report, 2,100 troops have been put on active duty to help manage the influx.
    Michael Lee, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The service of hymns and prayer will be followed by a Memorial Roll Call of members of the armed services who died in active duty.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The holy day brought a number of alumni to the campus that weekend – former students on active duty with the IDF, who happened to bring their weapons.
    Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But Jackson and Montgomery entered active duty less than a decade ago.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The deputy, who has not yet been interviewed as part of the investigation, is still on active duty, Woo said.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The Marine is on active duty and assigned to the battalion stationed at Camp Pendleton, Palmer said.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • In August, the U.S. Navy struck one of its most powerful ships from the rolls of active duty, heading for a well-deserved retirement.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As part of that a contest was held by the Air Force Recruiting Service asking active duty airmen to design a paint scheme.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The officer who did not fire his weapon is back on active duty after a brief leave because of the staffing needs of the roughly 15-person department, Belford said.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The 26-year-old Song reported to major league spring training on Feb. 23 after the Navy granted his transfer from active duty to the reserves.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
  • Last year alone, at least 328 active duty service members died by suicide.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 28 May 2023
  • Klimek: Colonel Cummings retired from active duty in 2003.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Air Force confirmed an active duty airman was involved, but did not identify him.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Wilkerson was a soldier at the time before he was later discharged from active duty in 2004.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The exception doesn’t apply to active duty military who seek to rent a unit from a small landlord — keeping the deposit limit at one month.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Veterans groups have lauded the bill as a way to stanch a suicide epidemic among those in uniform or retired from active duty.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • For some military members on active duty, being diagnosed with autism does not mean the end of their service.
    John Donvan, ABC News, 2 May 2024
  • Brown originally used the art of soap making as a form of mental therapy while serving on active duty in the United States Navy.
    Meghan Mahar, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2023
  • More than 100 Israeli male hostages are viewed by Hamas as men of fighting age, including some active duty or reservist soldiers.
    WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Proctor, through a lawyer, and the state police have each denied these allegations, and Proctor has remained on active duty.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • That’s in large part because, then as today, roughly 40% of active duty service members have children.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Police did not say whether the officer seen in the video remains on active duty while the department investigates.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • The governor can also order that the U.S. flag be flown at half-staff on the death of a notable present or former government official or member of the Armed Forces who dies while on active duty.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
  • The governor can also order that the U.S. flag be flown at half-staff on the death of a notable present or former government official or member of the Armed Forces who dies while on active duty.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
  • About 15 percent of his company is now on active duty, but the work goes on, especially since his firm, like most start-ups, serves clients and has investors outside Israel.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Are children of one or more parents in active duty military service.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2023

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