How to Use garrison in a Sentence

garrison

noun

• Soon the garrison is agog with tales of Joan’s prowess.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• At one point, in a fight against a German garrison, he was wounded in the face by sniper fire.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
• The city, which is called Kharkov in Russian, was established as a garrison in the 1650s.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• The trio, with little water, trekked 110 miles in five days to reach a Free French garrison.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• Last year’s event drew more about 5,000 people, the garrison said.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• The small room at the garrison, with an altar and church icons on the wall, had a somber feel as morning sunlight and the smell of incense filled the space.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
• It’s along this route that the main Ukrainian army pushes supplies to the city’s garrison.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• Members of the garrison left the barracks for cleanup duty during the protests in 2019.
  — Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• The garrison town sits about nine miles from the capital and is the former stronghold of the junta.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2021
• The bridge, along with sea and air transport, helped the Russians to build up a powerful garrison in Crimea.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• Walls work just fine when they are overseen by an alert garrison.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• In 680, Hussein had hearkened to the call of Muslims in the garrison town of Kufa, a few miles east of Najaf.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• At the time, the Alamo garrison was equipped with 24 cannons, including 18 that were mounted and ready to fire.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• Its garrison survived and had to be cleared out by infantry.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Russian garrison on Snake Island had at least two Tors.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• While the troops mounted into their trucks, a soldier knocked on the trailers around the garrison to roust North and the Fox cameraman.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• Joan enters the royal orbit via the scullery of a nearby French army garrison.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• The United States Army last month opened its first permanent garrison in Poland.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Cozine, whose job is compared to a city mayor, took command of the garrison in August, 2022.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• So a Ukrainian garrison will quit its city if there’s an imminent threat of getting cut off.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• While a Russia garrison entrenched themselves with bull dozers and tanks, convoys full of troops and supplies from the 36th Army rolled through.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
• The district, about half a square mile in size, sits at the base of a U.S. military garrison that was inherited from the Japanese colonists.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• Maurice Latimer seized a crucial outpost on Walcheren in the Netherlands by tricking the Nazi garrison there.
  — Leah Garrett, CNN, 30 May 2021
• Still, the way the garrison takes care of its functions is also up for re-evaluation, Druell said.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2021
• Images show a sizable buildup of forces from Russia’s 41st Army, far from its home garrison in Siberia, analysts say.
  — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
• That could make the Japanese garrison a tempting target for China — and put Mr. Kinjo’s greenhouses in the line of fire.
  — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• Soldiers from the Taiwanese garrison thunder down the road, still on guard for another attack.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• The statue faced the British garrison that bore the name of the king and his immediate predecessors on the throne—Fort George—and greeted the British soldiers who exited the stronghold’s gates.
  — Wendy Bellion, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
• Once the dust from the war settled, Mackinac Island remained home to Fort Mackinac, a military garrison.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• The garrison town established in the 1840s was once dominated by outlaws and renegades like gunslinger John King Fisher.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024