How to Use commando in a Sentence

commando

noun

• Get ready to watch people on Facebook play the role of commandos who defuse bombs and kill terrorists.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• Captain Kim gave the order for the commandos to disengage and disperse.
  — Mac William Bishop, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2018
• In addition, Iran is flying out commandos to assist further.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• As the tempo of those missions decreases, however, the Navy’s sea-air-land commandos appear to be going back to their roots.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2018
• These commandos did know, however, that an earlier attempt at the same mission by British soldiers had been a complete failure.
  — Timothy J. Jorgensen, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
• Bakhtawar said that at least 18 Afghan soldiers, eight of them commandos, had been killed in the attack and that three others had been taken captive by the Taliban.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• As anyone who buys a ticket to this movie will know, the drama culminated in a stunning rescue operation by Israeli commandos.
  — Mick Lasalle, idahostatesman, 15 Mar. 2018
• Ramos was seized at gunpoint outside his family's home in the city of Valencia and was rescued by police commandos two days later in the mountains of Carabobo state.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2018
• Not hunting guns or target-shooting firearms, but the civilian equivalent of commando weapons promoted by the motion picture industry that glorifies them.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
• Drones, midget submarines and tunnelling commandos could deploy biological, chemical and even nuclear weapons.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Dressed all in black, two commandos wearing ski masks and police armbands entered the prison to look for Faid.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• The day is slowly turning into night, but American commandos own the night and, with the help of the HEO, will do so well into the next conflict.
  — Jared Keller, WIRED, 8 July 2024
• The original Kill movie took place during a train trip to New Delhi, and saw a pair of commandos battle an army of bandits.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024