How to Use the Pentagon in a Sentence

the Pentagon

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The White House declined to comment, and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Monica Alba, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The other officer had taken a highly public press job at the Pentagon, was in the process of becoming an admiral and was in line to become the Navy’s top spokesperson.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • However, as of now, there is no conclusive proof that Tabatabai is responsible for the leak, something the Pentagon has denied as well.
    Saul Mangel, Orange County Register, 27 Oct. 2024

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