How to Use the Pentagon in a Sentence

the Pentagon

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• Carnegie picked up tickets for the event from the Maryland School for the Blind late last week and took the day off from her job at the Pentagon.
  — Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• But the Pentagon has fallen short of past promises for care help.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
• A lot of people that walk around the Pentagon are not in a position to give orders.
  — CBS News, 2 June 2024
• But the Pentagon has been planning for the worst-case contingencies if the talks failed.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• There are already signs that the new age weapons touted by the Pentagon and the tech industry are not all they are cracked up to be.
  — William D. Hartung, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
• Dixon left his condo building about 5 a.m. to drive the Pentagon.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• It was stacked with members who had ties to the Pentagon and conflicts of interest.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• With the all-volunteer military stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon started looking to the Navy to step in.
  — Gil Barndollar, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon is Pete Hegseth.
  — Connor Donevan, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
• The location of the meeting was also changed from the defense ministry to a location near the airport because of the protests, the Pentagon said.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families are unable to find health care off base when the Pentagon orders them to do so.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 17 June 2024
• Austin, who worked from home for two weeks after his release from the hospital, returned to work in the Pentagon on Monday.
  — TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
• Quinn was going to get cut at the first double eviction, so the Pentagon was going to go from the Pentagon to a rectangle.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2024
• But the Pentagon has said the Biden administration has said they were not informed about these attacks ahead of time.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
• So the Collective and the Pentagon had a reason to target them going forward.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2024
• The memo directs the Pentagon to review all medical staffing levels by June 30th.
  — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• But that floating pier could take up to two months and some 1,000 US military personnel to complete, the Pentagon said.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• At the Pentagon, leaders are wrestling with what has become a thorny but familiar debate.
  — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2024
• If anything, the Pentagon simply debunked their own naming for that video.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
• In short, a Trump presidency is good news for weapons contractors who are already awash in funding from the the Pentagon and scores of foreign clients.
  — William Hartung, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• In August, the Pentagon unveiled a Replicator program, which will rapidly build and field thousands of drones in two years or less.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• Just last month, Emmer twice failed to get the votes to pass a rule to fund the Pentagon, the congressional equivalent to a shooting guard flinging an open layup into the bleachers.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• But Biden’s plan, which will require the service of about a thousand U.S. troops, will also take up to 60 days to construct, along with a causeway connecting it to land, the Pentagon said last week.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Tributes to victims in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2024
• Singh, the Pentagon spokeswoman, said monitoring of U.S. weapons is being accomplished with the help of Ukraine.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Of these, 95% go on to finish basic training and become soldiers, according to the Pentagon.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2024
• Cancian said Ukraine's use of artillery shells far outstrips the Pentagon's capacity to make them.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Investors are keen on the opportunities for the only public pure-play supplier of drones to the Pentagon.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Even if the Pentagon makes efforts to preserve the advances in military medicine, future wartime medicine could look very different.
  — NPR, 3 June 2024
• The screen displays lines of green code as the hacker types furiously, attempting to break into the Pentagon's network.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024