How to Use basic training in a Sentence

basic training

noun

• Our son is in basic training.
• Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are answering the draft notices and are now undergoing basic training and should begin refilling the ranks this summer.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Most Ukrainians also see basic training for conscripts as inadequate, a recent survey showed, leading some to avoid the draft, worried that they would not be prepared for combat.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• The cast and crew filmed the basic training scenes at Fort Knox.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2021
• The guards must go through basic training with the Swiss Armed Forces.
  — al, 9 Aug. 2019
• These are folks that are about to go to basic training.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2018
• The first thing he was told in basic training was not to get captured.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• Tirado made it through weeks of basic training for the Air Force.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• Have the rhythms of basic training stayed the same over the years, or is that just how they’re depicted on screen?
  — Vulture, 21 Nov. 2022
• The Air Force opened a second basic training site in Biloxi.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 3 June 2020
• In the fifth week of eight weeks of basic training, on a day off for the Fourth of July, Tom played in a softball game.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 16 June 2019
• Those recruits will go to basic training over the next year.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• The decision to add Keesler to the mix of basic training was historic.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Up until 1955, there were Army ranges used for basic training at the site.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• The basic training runs for a month, and takes place multiple times over the summer.
  — Thomas Prior, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2022
• The two reverends met in 2012 on the first day of the Army’s basic training, and after three weeks of knowing each other jumped the broom.
  — Joi-Marie McKenzie, Essence, 29 Oct. 2019
• In the spring of 2004, Snowden joined the Army reserves but, five months later, washed out of basic training.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• The death of his beloved mother, Gladys, midway through basic training camp was a huge blow.
  — Jonathan Gold, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2018
• The goal of basic training is not just upskilling but readiness.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
• That would have meant fall 2019, and re-starting basic training.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• And the Marines are part of the Navy, whose academy allows Sikh recruits to keep their beards in basic training.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• That person hasn’t yet gone to basic training, but will likely do so in the coming months.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• High, now her husband, signed up for the U.S. Air Force and is about to graduate from basic training.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Over 1,000 of them paid their own way to travel to basic training in Sweetwater, TX, and made it through.
  — Melissa Jun Rowley, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Some of the members were on their first assignment out of basic training.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 12 June 2020
• That's barely enough to get them out of basic training and into a unit, Petraeus said.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• My youngest brother leaves for basic training in April.
  — Matt Young, Time, 13 Mar. 2018
• Billy was about to leave for a five-month stint in basic training and technical school.
  — Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• He was sent to Camp Crowder in Neosho, Missouri, for basic training.
  — Author: Mary Sanchez, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• Bishai is unemployed but set to join the U.S. Army next month and undergo 10 weeks of basic training at Ft.
  — al, 16 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024