How to Use reservist in a Sentence

reservist

noun

• In 1991, Patrick deployed to the Gulf War as an army reservist.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• That could test the resolve of the hundreds of reservists who have vowed to stay away.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• Biggs has been in the Air Force for 22 years, all but four of them as a reservist.
  — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
• At the time of its founding, all the members were Lake Arthur reservists.
  — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• By then, the Vietnam War had slowed down, so the Army allowed him to be a reservist.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
• In 1948, six female Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the Navy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• Among them — an Army reservist who wore a Hitler mustache to his job at a Navy base.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Chron, 20 Dec. 2021
• The Pentagon on Monday announced the names of the three Army reservists killed as Sgt.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Josh’s mom, Alice, was an Air Force reservist for 25 years.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
• His own son Beau served as a reservist in the country before his death from brain cancer in 2015.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 26 July 2021
• Amoah, a former Air Force reservist from the outskirts of Chicago.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2017
• The classmate said the pot patch belonged to his brother-in-law, a Coast Guard reservist stationed at Point Reyes.
  — Paul Elias, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• There, resting on its back with arms open, was the body of a friend, Pasha Li, a 33-year-old Ukrainian actor turned reservist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• My turning point came as an Israeli reservist soldier serving in the Gaza refugee camps in the 1980s.
  — Yossi Klein Halevi, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Thousands of army, navy and air force reservists were being dispatched to battle the fires.
  — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2020
• 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
• In 1948, six female US Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• Oleh, a military reservist, is married and has a 23-year-old son.
  — Nathan Smith, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Sonja Airikki, a 39-year-old reservist who will lead the training next month.
  — Michael Hunt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Mathews joined the Armed Forces as a reservist in 2010 and was a combat engineer at a base in Winnipeg.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
• As part of his work as an Army reservist, Card was an instructor at a hand grenade training range.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• For the first time in Australia’s history, 3,000 army, navy and air force reservists have been called up and will be thrown into the battle against the fires.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2020
• One of his first moves was to get rid of an U.S. Army reservist with finance expertise who had been assigned to help.
  — TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
• About half are army reservists who in the past 10 days have returned to Israel from homes and jobs overseas to help secure the country and fight Hamas.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• The reservists refusing to fly under Netanyahu are aware of that.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Gold is now on a military base in the south, having been recruited as a reservist.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• One picture shows reservists training in a two-man sniper-spotter team.
  — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• All this as the numbers of reservists refusing to serve continued to rise.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• That has left the U.S. to have to search for indicators of a ground movement, such as Israel’s calling up large numbers of reservists or moving columns of tanks toward the Lebanese border, the officials said.
  — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Thousands of businesses suffered as reservists abandoned their civilian lives to take up arms, and the country’s economy is shrinking at an alarming rate.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024