How to Use infantryman in a Sentence

infantryman

noun
  • Joseph fought as an infantryman in the forests of the Ardennes.
    Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Clyde was an infantryman and achieved the rank of private first class.
    Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
  • Payne joined the Army in 2002 as an infantryman and quickly made his way into the Rangers.
    Aamer Madhani and Jill Colvin, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Marines are deployed around the Capitol while infantrymen guard the White House.
    Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Juan Balleza, a 90-year-old Marine infantryman, choked up when asked about the Battle of Chosin.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Grek was talking to an infantryman with gray stubble and glasses when a shell crashed in the fields.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • His team fended off the assault, but his days as an infantryman were over.
    Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Thomas was a three-time combat tour infantryman with the 82nd Airborne.
    Jennifer Griffin | Fox News, Fox News, 11 July 2020
  • These words were written by the wife of an Army infantryman who served six deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Sandra Feist, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Reed enlisted in the Marines as an infantryman in 2011.
    Julia Jester, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • Prather had been an infantryman for the Maryland National Guard for nearly four years, the Guard said in a tweet.
    Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Here is Zeno as a young infantryman, fighting in the Korean War.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • As a Marine who served as an infantryman, sometimes the wisdom of war would come back to him in a flash of command insight.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2020
  • Long, 39, was an infantryman who served 11 years in the Army, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Maciel, an infantryman who served in the Army for two years, is survived by his father and mother.
    Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • After boot camp, most of the infantrymen deployed to Vietnam.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Her father later served as an infantryman in the German army.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Jim Jordan is a hard-right warrior, a front-line infantryman eager to storm the Omaha Beach of the culture wars.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The smallest of them, the handheld Rifleman Radio, is supposed to be the infantryman's data link to the wider Army network.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Amsberry, from Mesa, Ariz., entered the Army in 2003 as an infantryman.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The former infantryman chose to try his luck in his home country and finally found a place willing to train him in 1928: the Los Angeles School of Flight.
    Khari Thompson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2021
  • Most men were required to register for the draft, and Taylor didn’t want to risk being drafted as an infantryman.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Most men were required to register for the draft, and Taylor didn't want to risk being drafted as an infantryman.
    Kyle Melnick, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • In black-and-white school photos from the early ’60s, Trump can be seen in boots, sash and a plumed shako, like some Austro-Hungarian infantryman.
    Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Thanks to Moore’s Law, the tech shrank dramatically in the last four decades, to the point where that sort of aiming assistance can now fit on the top of an infantryman’s rifle.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • Rakhine villagers walked by, avoiding eye contact with the infantrymen.
    Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • The veteran, who had also served as an infantryman in Afghanistan, was killed on Feb. 16 during combat.
    Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Arizona Democrat was deployed to Iraq in 2005 as an infantryman, where his company saw the tragic effects of war.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
  • An infantryman, in charge of a rocket launcher, Andriy lost his left hand after being hit by a shell a few months ago in the Donetsk region.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The only signs of roadside life were the silhouettes of Israeli infantrymen who guarded the route at strategic intervals.
    Patrick Kingsley Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023

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