How to Use expeditionary in a Sentence

expeditionary

adjective

• The Quds, or Jerusalem, Force is the Guard’s expeditionary unit.
  — Jon Gambrell, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• The vessel is used by expeditionary teams from around the world.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
• The bulk of China’s naval buildup has been in the area of surface ships, many of which are not suitable for long range, expeditionary warfare.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019
• The hipsters, the artists, the writers and the start-up entrepreneurs started arriving a few years ago, a sort of flat white expeditionary force.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• In the early 1500s, Hernán Cortés led an expeditionary force into the Aztec Empire.
  — Dustin Snyder, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The Navy’s other expeditionary sea bases have conducted operations off the coast of Africa and in the Middle East.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
• When it’s paired with the most expeditionary-minded military the world’s ever seen, sitting on the edge of the world’s newest potential hotspot.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2021
• Matthew Hracho, told the jury, Darbi spared the government the time and expense of putting him on trial at the base’s expeditionary war court, called Camp Justice.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 13 Oct. 2017
• Part of the Silversea fleet, the Silver Explorer, is billed as an expeditionary vessel.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
• This system can support the equivalent of a brigade-sized expeditionary unit, with voice, text and data traffic at up to 30m bits per second (bps).
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The Marines, as a fast-moving expeditionary force that relies on grunts to carry lots of gear to the front line, sees itself as an odd fit for gender integration.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2021
• Its expeditionary forces already have served in Afghanistan and as peacekeepers in Kosovo.
  — Jon Gambrell, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• The leaders also agreed to use E.U. funds to finance Europe’s battle groups — small, expeditionary forces that can be deployed quickly to hot spots.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2017
• With an expeditionary sea base around, that need becomes less of a priority.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• An expeditionary learning school for grades 6-8, in partnership with the Denver Public Schools, has also been nixed from the building.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 4 May 2017
• And this is the thing about expeditionary journalism in general.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 June 2018
• The film follows a British expeditionary team’s attempt at the world’s first circumnavigation of the Earth in an 80-year-old Spitfire fighter plane.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• Construction on the expeditionary sea base Miguel Keith took about two years and is set to be permanently foreign-based.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
• The gondola rides, which would cost about $10 each way, would fly roughly 30 feet over historic sites including where a Spanish expeditionary force led by Capt.
  — Louis Sahagún Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• Within 50 days, Mattis was leading an expeditionary brigade in Afghanistan.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Mentzer has served as an expeditionary force support squadron commander, national defense fellow and joint readiness planner for the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2020
• The expeditionary nature of the U.S. armed forces, designed to travel thousands of miles and accomplish dangerous missions, makes them in some ways well suited to respond.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2019
• The first try failed, but a second expeditionary force arriving a year later brought with it smallpox, which devastated the city and brought the Spanish victory.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• But in expeditionary environments, where all these things are likely to be in short supply, ACES could make a real difference.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• For his bravery, Woodfill would receive the Medal of Honor and be Pershing's selection as the most outstanding soldier of the expeditionary force.
  — Ray Locker, USA TODAY, 21 May 2018
• The outpouring of grief was an unprecedented honor for a man viewed by Iranians as a national hero for his work leading the Guard's expeditionary Quds Force.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2020
• The Quds Force is the Guard’s expeditionary unit, responsible for operations abroad.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 10 Aug. 2022
• Both are capable of not only defending the ship, but a larger, multi-ship task force as a whole, such as a carrier strike group or amphibious expeditionary strike group.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2021
• Iran’s expeditionary forces and allied militias in the northern Middle East haven’t been targeted—but still punishing.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 16 June 2019
• In 1769, Gaspar de Portola led an expeditionary force through Camp Pendleton.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018

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