How to Use veteran in a Sentence

veteran

noun

• He's a 10-year veteran with the team.
• Even though Foles is an 11-year veteran, he was put in a tough spot.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
• Jones Wong speaks like a veteran who has studied the break in and out of the water for much of her life.
  — Talya Minsberg Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• The other, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD, sustained a bad gash.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2 Jan. 2023
• The 17-year veteran played two seasons with the Royals.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
• Sweeney, who wore a Marine veteran's hat, beseeched the group to take a stand.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• The 16-year veteran was shot in his thigh and shin and is expected to survive.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Chapek tapped Daniel, a 14-year veteran of the company at the time, to head the division.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• It’s been more than a decade since the Cowboys added two veterans of this quality ahead of the draft.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Many of them are our nation’s veterans of two Gulf Wars.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• But North and South, the veterans would put on their old uniforms and parade through the towns and villages.
  — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
• After two years of war, all the veterans in the unit were exhausted.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The crowd in the video was made up of military and veteran families that were hosted on the South Lawn of the White House.
  — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The veteran starters are often the saving grace for the Bulls, producing over half of the team’s points per game.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• Skolimowski, a veteran of the Polish New Wave, is up to no good and reveling at the chance.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
• Others out on the line were top-tier veterans earning more than $31 an hour.
  — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The veteran linebacker was good again for most of Sunday’s game.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2022
• Hesse said the narrative veterans need to be pitied needs to be shifted.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
• Gil Thorp, the veteran funnies-page high-school coach, is getting new help on the sidelines.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• Robby Benson, a Broadway veteran at the time, played the Beast.
  — Jeff Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
• The veteran bench coach had already seen it all when he was tabbed to take over for Girardi.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
• Blumenstein, also a veteran of The Wall Street Journal, is the new figure in the mix.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
• One of the Americans, a twenty-four-year-old Army veteran named Joshua Jones, was wounded in the thigh.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• A lot of big-name veteran free agents remain on the market if Lynch ignores his safety roots in the draft.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• Then again, perhaps the first quarterback to speak would be Collin Schlee, the veteran transfer from Kent State.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The whole ensemble of Jaja’s is strong, but the play really finds its punch when the two veterans roll up.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• But after the death of his wife from cancer in 2018, the veteran was left to care for his children as a single father.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
• Marshall said Crumbly was a three-year veteran of the department.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 May 2024
• One of the officers, a five-year veteran of the Akron Police Department, then discharged his firearm, striking the teen.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 30 Nov. 2024
• Black and Hispanic veterans often led the civil rights and social justice movements that continue to evolve to this day.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024