How to Use legionnaire in a Sentence

legionnaire

noun
  • The legionnaires took much better care of me than of themselves.
    Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The legionnaires rent their parking lot during events at the Hollywood Bowl.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The switch is also suspected in outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease linked to 12 Flint-area deaths.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
  • Legionnaires' is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that thrive in warm water and infect the lungs.
    CBS News, 14 June 2017
  • Guests were summoned to the ball with an invitation emblazoned with the krewe logo of a roman legionnaire and Primus V, the krewe's King, who made a grand entrance to the ball to greet his subjects and await his court.
    Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • That same year, 35-year-old legionnaire Linsday Church was elected commander of her Seattle post.
    Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Visitors will see the gladius of a Roman legionnaire, the style of sword used by the soldiers that eventually gave its name to the gladiators who fought for sport.
    Andrew Alexander, ajc, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But surrender is not a part of a legionnaire’s mentality.
    New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • In the early 1980s health officials were declaring an epidemic of an illness that claimed more victims than toxic shock and legionnaire's disease combined, but which was a mystery to most of the country.
    CBS News, 28 June 2020
  • An immaculate woman coming of age in a sinful world, fleeing her home with her husband and her baby, shielding the child from brutal legionnaires and a jealous king.
    Luke Dittrich, Esquire, 25 July 2014
  • Preliminary test results indicate that traces of the bacteria causing Legionnaires' were found at the police station in East Harlem.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • Such was the case for innumerable female veterans denied full legionnaire status and shuffled to auxiliary posts.
    Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Hudson noticed Howard’s camouflage legionnaire pants and struck up a conversation.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • But legionnaires ultimately decided to give it to the Veterans Museum, where it is displayed with other Civil War artifacts.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2017
  • Legionnaires' is a potentially fatal type of pneumonia or lung infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Ron Fonger, NOLA.com, 14 June 2017
  • Legionnaires' disease spreads when people breathe small droplets of water infected with legionella bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 10 June 2017
  • Babies born during water births are at risk of contracting Legionnaires' disease, a severe and potentially life-threatening form of pneumonia that infected two infants in Arizona last year.
    Lena H. Sun, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • Resistance, however, has melted away before the undisputed recruiting success of the post-9/11 legionnaires.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
  • One 2016 study showed that, following hotels, long-term care facilities and hospitals are the most common types of buildings associated with Legionnaires' disease outbreaks that CDC investigates.
    Dr. Anne Schuchat, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • He is accused of involuntary manslaughter by deliberately failing to warn the public about a fatal outbreak of legionnaires disease, which the prosecution says was directly connected to the water crisis.
    Dean Reynolds, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Legionnaires disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, which is typically found in freshwater water.
    Fox News, 29 June 2017

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