How to Use paratrooper in a Sentence

paratrooper

noun

• Note the dummy paratrooper that represents John Steele (upper left).
  — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 25 May 2017
• Far from Normandy’s beaches, French paratroopers and resistance members fought a rear-guard action to keep the Nazis at bay.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• Steele, a U.S. paratrooper, hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before Germans took him prisoner.
  — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 25 May 2017
• At 2 a.m. on June 6, the paratroopers, commanded by Colonel Motta Gur, crossed no-man’s-land.
  — Yossi Klein Halevi, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• His father, Richard, was an Army paratrooper and police officer in West Orange who rose in rank to captain.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
• U.S. Army military paratroopers fly over Miami Beach at 70 miles per hour.
  — Lance Dixon, miamiherald, 27 May 2017
• As a young paratrooper in the Israeli army, he was shot in the knee.
  — Chip Reid, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2018
• As a young man in the mid-1950s, Cohen was a paratrooper in the Israeli Army.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• But that was hard to do because the paratrooper had to control the chute, too.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2021
• He was trained to be a paratrooper and played football on an Army team.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
• My dad was also a paratrooper, so tonight was a huge night for me.
  — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Rasul had served as a paratrooper in the Russian army in Chechnya, in the nineties.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• There is a paratrooper beret, a live large-caliber round, and a pair of fake hand grenades, painted black.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
• Just make sure not to tuck your trousers into them paratrooper-style.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 31 Oct. 2017
• One 99-year-old paratrooper is still doing his part to serve the country.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
• Sidney Cornell, known as the first Black paratrooper to land on D-Day.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
• He was called up as a reservist during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, again as a paratrooper.
  — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• The first paratrooper appeared to come in a little hot, missing the mark but still landing safely on the field of play.
  — Nick Cole, ajc, 16 Sep. 2017
• Vincenzo Fiore of the 82nd Airborne Division, who was the fifth paratrooper to jump from the plane on D-day.
  — Matt Patterson, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
• The other was a tall Israeli paratrooper who looked a lot like Clint Eastwood.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 9 Dec. 2019
• Belgian paratroopers were flown in, and most of the Europeans were rescued by the Belgians and Mr. Hoare’s forces.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• As the last paratrooper soars downward with a huge American flag flapping in the wind behind him, the gallery roars.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• The paratrooper soon realized that the most important tool of the mission was his phone.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• The Oath Keepers were founded by Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper, in 2009.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Soon after hearing the news, Marks went to an army surplus store in Key West and bought olive drab fatigues and paratrooper boots.
  — Longreads, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2021
• After the shell explosion, Goolkasian, the tank gunner, hopped to an aid station with the help of a paratrooper.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Toan Van Nguyen, who was a paratrooper for South Vietnam in 1963 during the war, said the event was touching and powerful.
  — Alina Ta, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• The paratrooper’s official job was to get U.S. matériel and personnel out of Afghanistan.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• Huge transport planes filled with paratroopers and pulling airborne troops in gliders roared over the German west wall to drop their cargos in the rear.
  — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
• The battle was also notable in that this was the last German paratrooper drop of the war, and they were supposed to secure a major road.
  — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024