How to Use squadron in a Sentence

squadron

noun

• The single squadron flying the swing-wing Su-24s seems to have suffered the worst.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• The British squadron resumed fire at point-blank range.
  — Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
• Jonas and Neville are playing members of the 32 squadron.
  — Borys Kit, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2021
• The squadron is catching up by putting students in the air six times a week.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 6 July 2020
• Before the rules changed, Mr. Klein said, his squadron launched about 16 airstrikes in two years.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• During his time in the war, Bode served on a combat bomb squadron.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024
• Space Force deploys its 1st squadron outside of the U.S.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
• This was the squadron’s second occurrence in the last 10 months.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2020
• She’s expected to report to the Blue Angels in the fall and will train with the squadron through the winter.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 18 July 2022
• Later, a squadron of go-go boys ceded the stage to the drag queen Trinity the Tuck.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron.
  — Corey Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
• The jet belongs to a training squadron of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
  — Josh Cradduck, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• The jet was from strike fighter squadron VFA-151 stationed at Lemoore.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2019
• The Gloucester was part of a squadron of ships, so there were many eyewitnesses to the tragedy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2022
• At one point in the book, Harold dreams up a scenario in which a squadron of B-17 bombers drops sweaters instead of bombs.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• On the morning of June 6, the squadron’s mission was to bomb a German airfield in France.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024
• Last year, the two squadrons trained together in Nevada and Hawaii.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The Marines declared the first squadron operational in 2015.
  — Josh Cradduck, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• The pulks will be deployed at the squadron level, or what the U.S. Marines call companies.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
• The new aggressor unit, dubbed Red Eagles, would fly a squadron of MiGs.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2021
• Our entire squadron, about 40 people, all lived in one tent with plank boards and one makeshift stove.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• The arrival of the letters gave the British squadron a crucial advantage.
  — John Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Space Force’s own squadrons, Saltzman told me, were still tracking pieces of junk that date to the 2007 explosion.
  — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• He was commissioned in 2007 and was a leader in his squadron, the Fighting Bengals, at the time of his death.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
• On this trip, the passengers gasp at the squadron of five bald eagles overhead.
  — Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• The squadron’s homecoming is the first of several that will take place over the coming days.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• That’s a reduction in the U.S. patrol squadron from 19 vessels to just six.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• As the squadron approached the tip of South America, the weather worsened; the other ships in the squadron began to turn back.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Instead, both the existing and new squadrons will remain in place to double the airpower on hand.
  — Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024