How to Use commando in a Sentence

commando

noun

• Oh, and the competitors had to go commando: no underpants.
  — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
• Going commando does have one health downside to consider.
  — Health.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The next, a planet-killing warlord betrays you by throwing an all-devouring swarm at your favorite psychic commando.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2017
• The design would be printed to hide the juice stains, thick enough to go commando, and unfitted, to keep comfortable and cool in the Florida heat.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2017
• So either keep the beard very short with regular trims, or swap the two as the beard reaches full coverage—that is, buzz the hair all the way down, commando style, letting the beard take center stage.
  — Adam Hurly, GQ, 10 Aug. 2017
• Her husband is Colonel Lauren Catelain, the former chief of the French mountain commandos.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 29 Sep. 2017
• A commando participating in the joint operations opened fire on four of the Americans, killing three and wounding another.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 17 June 2017
• His eight-year-old daughter, also a U.S. citizen, was killed in a U.S. commando raid several years later.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
• One friend tells me, with a kind of pride, that she’s gone commando.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• At one point, Ira and Vika had to crawl, commando-style, along a road to check that the route was safe.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• Even with three dozen henchmen, the dacoits are no match for the two commandos.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• The commando had stood his post to the end, but was now unable to get back to his family.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
• And that’s where Israeli commandos were able to rescue the hostages.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• The idea was for the commandos to do the heavy lifting on the ground with American air and artillery support.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• In the days before Sadeq was scheduled to arrive, the U.S. forces at the base worked with Afghan commandos to draw up a minute-by-minute plan.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• By dusk that day, the work of the Afghan commandos and their American Special Forces partners was over.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
• At first, elite commando units would come once a week on a resupply run.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
• One teammate was gunned down by an Afghan commando gone rogue.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• One of the youngest children was grabbed by a commando attached to a helicopter by rope.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023
• But don’t go commando hoping that will solve the issue.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022
• For the first commando raid, Borghese had bought a flotilla of jet skis to transport 20 men to a Russian base on Cape Tarkhankut.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Two French commandos killed during the mission were given solemn services in the heart of Paris.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• The courses all encompass a number of phases and run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2019
• At the height of the crisis, more than a dozen SWAT commandos were seen entering the mall, their assault rifles ready.
  — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2020
• The courses have encompassed a number of phases and have run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2019
• Get ready to watch people on Facebook play the role of commandos who defuse bombs and kill terrorists.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• Dressed all in black, two commandos wearing ski masks and police armbands entered the prison to look for Faid.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• While forged in wartime, the knowledge needed to create a commando-style sole was not kept top-secret.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
• Israeli commandos rescued her and the others from civilian homes in the midst of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
• That figure was cut in half after the group was targeted by US airstrikes and Afghan commando raids.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024