How to Use infantry in a Sentence

infantry

noun

• He joined the infantry after leaving school.
• More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  — Mark Yost, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Stryker can transport a full squad of nine infantry troops and a crew of two.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
• Less than a quarter of the soldiers in a BTG are infantry.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Like an infantry squad in such a film, each player has a hook.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• The others lying there were all part of an infantry squad.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, Moscow’s infantry and armor poured into the country from the north, east, and south.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
• Both of those killed were infantry soldiers in the Givati Brigade, the military said.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• Its crew of two can transport nine infantry troops at sustained speeds of 60 mph.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• Russian infantry rush in to exploit any gaps the guns blow in Ukrainian lines.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The Marine’s unit had engaged a platoon of Iraqi infantry.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Marder can travel at 40 miles per hour and carry three crew and six infantry, Forbes reports.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 9 Jan. 2023
• In the Marines, infantry and reconnaissance jobs have been all-male.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• When Viktor’s infantry unit first arrived here, thickets of oak and birch trees lined the grassy fields.
  — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
• For that, Crossman dressed the Russian infantry in green and the Russian cavalry in white.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
• The Old Guard is the oldest active-duty Army infantry unit, serving since 1784.
  — Josh Morgan, USA Today, 25 May 2023
• He was drafted into the Army infantry in 1964 during the Vietnam War.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 June 2024
• Out-of-print books and binders stuffed with obscure infantry rosters weigh down sagging shelves.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• As his infantry unit faced being overrun in South Korea in 1950, the teenage soldier from Buen ...
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 24 May 2023
• Waiting to reapply, Rauch spent three years in the Army, in an infantry battalion.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The enemy infantry did not even think about moving here.
  — Ivana Kottasova, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Their pace of fire had picked up as Ukrainian infantry advanced: 60 rounds overnight, Gerych said, compared to the usual 40 or so.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• Its garrison survived and had to be cleared out by infantry.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• There was a rapid pop, pop, pop as rifle fire pounded the dirt and trees and Russian infantry edged closer and closer.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• The 15 infantry men of the 59th Brigade, part of the Shkval – or wind gust - battalion are former prisoners.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
• Support from tanks is vital, in turn, for protecting infantry on the ground.
  — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
• He Hua-shing, chief of staff at the army’s infantry training command in Kaohsiung.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• Loren Crowe was 25 years old when he was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army.
  — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2021
• The funding will speed up the Army’s acquisition of Switchblade 600, which will give infantry the ability to independently knock out tanks from long range.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024