How to Use national guardsman in a Sentence

national guardsman

noun

• So national guardsmen are targeting The Beast, the train that many migrants take north.
  — Dallas News, 29 June 2019
• In Venezuela’s gold capital, national guardsmen block the roads.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Sergeant Allen, a national guardsman from Georgia, had part of his brain removed during surgery, and is now unable to speak, walk, or take care of himself.
  — Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• But they were pushed back by national guardsmen wielding heavy riot shields.
  — Time, 6 Jan. 2020
• The flood caused heavy damage in Ellicott City and killed a national guardsman who was swept away by floodwaters trying to help a resident.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2018
• Kent State: Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shooting, when 13 students were shot by national guardsmen on the university’s campus.
  — cleveland, 5 May 2020
• Among our athletes in Korea were a firefighter, a national guardsman, and a mechanic.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Also tonight, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis signed orders to deploy as many as 4,000 national guardsmen to the region.
  — Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
• About 24 miles into their journey, federal police and national guardsmen blocked their path.
  — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2019
• And those who live at Mexico’s southern border believe bringing in national guardsmen will only be a boon to human smugglers.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• One national guardsman assigned to the operation died while trying to save drowning migrants.
  — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 7 July 2022
• The distribution will be drive-through and conducted in the front parking lot at the school, from 10 a.m. to noon, with national guardsmen and Ohio Reserve Guardsmen directing traffic and loading the food into vehicles.
  — Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• His family says he was last seen alive fleeing alongside other protesters through the dusty streets of the capital’s Las Adjuntas slum as national guardsmen opened fire on people who had blocked streets with mounds of trash.
  — Fabiola Sanchez, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• Salsa music was sounding as national guardsmen and pro-government militias organized the long lines.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• Mexico had already sent 2,000 national guardsmen to help police its southern border.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• The group trudged about 24 miles ( 40 kilometers) northwest along a highway under the supervision of human rights officials before federal police and national guardsmen blocked their path.
  — Isabel Mateos, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2019
• Mexican national guardsmen and immigration agents have stepped up efforts to tighten control of the notoriously porous frontier, driving up fees smugglers charge to evade them.
  — Dudley Althaus, ExpressNews.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• During the storm, first responders, national guardsmen and other emergency workers unknowingly contaminated the carpet of the MVPD building by wearing rubber boots that had been in flood waters inside.
  — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
• Louisiana has 150 national guardsmen and other emergency preparedness officials assisting in Puerto Rico currently.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017

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