How to Use regimental in a Sentence

regimental

adjective
  • While more a matter of taste these days, these particular designs grew from regimental stripes and saw gentleman’s clubs and private schools develop their own signature weaves as a subtle calling card.
    Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The green-blue teal also perfectly matched the plumes worn in the bearskin hats of the Guards and features prominently in their regimental badge.
    Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There were older men, with regimental berets and medals on their chests from past service.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • During a single month of the Wilderness Campaign, the Army lost 30 of its 41 brigade commanders, and, at the regimental level, the carnage was even worse.
    Patrick T. Reardon, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The color, or regimental flag, which was trooped in the ceremony belongs to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
    Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2023
  • There’s an unidentified regimental band — more than 40 strong — photographed while sitting in the grass with instruments and huge bass drum.
    Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
  • However, among his Black recruits was James Reese Europe tapped to lead the regimental marching band.
    Radhika Chalasani, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Military bands will perform, regimental flags will process down the ranks and the Officer in Command of the Parade will issue words of command to direct the soldiers.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • She was last seen in the afternoon in the parking lot of her regimental engineer squadron headquarters on the sprawling Army post outside Killeen, wearing a black T-shirt.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 23 June 2020
  • In 1864, during the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, the regimental color bearer was wounded on the battlefield.
    Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Queen Angela's escort was smartly dressed in regimental blue, with gold epaulets befitting high rank and renown, and the queen's train required four attendants.
    Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The ritual takes place early in the morning, at about 3:30 a.m., when members of the Honor Court and regimental band drum-line enter the student barracks, sounding off several rolls of the snare and bass drums.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The name of the parade derives from the custom of the various regiments showing off their regimental flags, then crucial on battlefields for troops to recognize in the fog of war.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 8 June 2019
  • The regimental band is credited with bringing jazz to Europe.
    Radhika Chalasani, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Made of silk or nylon, they’re typically affixed to a unit’s regimental flag.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Shaw is killed attempting to lead his men in a final assault as is Trip, who falls having finally embraced the regimental colors.
    Kevin M. Levin, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Germano believed that much of the failure rested with the depot’s regimental commander, Col.
    Janet Reitman, New York Times, 6 July 2017
  • Here the regimental authorities found out what had happened, but not being able to persuade the young patriots to return home allowed them to march with the regiment.
    Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Here the regimental authorities found out what had happened, but not being able to persuade the young patriots to return home allowed them to march with the regiment.
    Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
  • During each Trooping the Colour ceremony, one from among the Foot Guard regiments takes its turn presenting its regimental colors down the ranks.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2018
  • Side tables reference old leather school trunks, British aircraft or regimental drums.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • In the bowels of a decrepit theater, Antonio Marras threw a Weimar-like cabaret for the end of the world, complete with a woman soaring overhead on a swing, and piles of distressed velvets, beading, fringe, florals and regimental stripes.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The Belarusian news outlet said the death of at least one and the potential capture of five other regimental soldiers is the largest loss the Belarusian volunteer group has suffered in the most recent war against Russia.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 6 July 2022
  • Prince Andrew, too, remains an H.R.H., even if the title—like a regimental uniform tailored for a slimmer former incarnation—is no longer fit to be seen in public.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Thomas Preston, the regimental captain, rushed to his side, accompanied by seven men.
    Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Her green heels added an elegant edge, but didn't stop her from gently petting the regimental mascot Irish wolfhound Turlough Mor (otherwise known as Seamus!).
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Much as Oswald Spengler had elevated the brooding schwarmerei of German café philosophers into a treatise, so Jünger took the rote form of the regimental memoir and affixed a bayonet to it.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • The Royal Welsh Museum’s website said mascots have a regimental number and rank as well as a salary for their uniform, accommodations and food.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The boxy quilted BBag is a riff on the traditional quilted flap bag with a gold chain added for a touch of decadent luxury; Romeo’s spikes and studs deliver punk attitude, while the Twist plays up the canteen bag’s regimental origins.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 28 May 2019
  • Just in the run-up to Sunday’s commemoration, taunting the survivors, someone clambered up light poles in Derry to unfurl the regimental banner of the Parachute Regiment.
    Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022

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