infantryman

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Recent Examples of infantryman About the same time, a Missouri infantryman and musician in the home’s band fell back into the sodden embrace of booze after years of sobriety, went back to his barracks and swallowed hydrochloric acid. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 Tehran would have to provide the Syrian regime with tens of thousands of infantrymen to regain control of the ground. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 Palma is an infantryman from McFarland, California; Jauregui is a Stryker systems maintainer from Tacoma, Washington; and Mendoza Lopez is a wheeled vehicle mechanic from Bensenville, Illinois, the spokesperson said. Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024 An Army infantryman, Charlie fought in the largest and bloodiest battle of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for infantryman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantryman
Noun
  • Was the unit’s survival due to the men’s indispensable service as Loyalist laborers and cavalrymen?
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • These cavalrymen participated in the Third Battle of Winchester, a key victory for the Union.
    Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In this massive operation, however, Allied commanders became uncertain of the location of the doughboys of the Lost Battalion, who soon fell under attack from both enemy German artillery, as well as friendly fire from the Americans.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Look at the recent backlash against pop singer Róisín Murphy, who is about as threatening a figure as the Pillsbury doughboy.
    Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Moscow has been relying on assistance from North Korean soldiers to push back Kyiv’s advances in the Kursk region of Russia, and has been steadily advancing on the ground in eastern Ukraine, while the US attempts to broker talks that would end the conflict.
    Anna Chernova and Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Young men are invited to play soldiers; upon locating the hotel (now a private dwelling) where D’Annunzio spent a night en route to the takeover, Bezinović recruits the woman of the house to play the chambermaid ministering to the traveller.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An international networker par excellence, Zambello was staging Carmen at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, with Chen in the peripheral part of Zuniga, lieutenant of the dragoons.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The family, Louisville residents, also enjoyed some pizza and crab dragoons from the food trucks.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • ActBlue’s involvement with the Floyd riots extends beyond fundraising for its foot soldiers.
    Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Mar. 2025
  • At present this may rely on the makeshift approach of using foot soldiers to move FPVs into position, but more sophisticated solutions are probably not far away. Follow me on Twitter.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At all times, Adobe insists the user will stay in control of the creative process, while the agent does the grunt work where it’s needed or wanted.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Bonobo dictionary Berthet started with establishing the tentative meaning of the basic calls: singular grunts or yelps.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • UConn’s Jim Mora was a women’s basketball fan, and candy raider at UCLA UConn football coach Jim Mora is a former colleague, and still an fan of UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close, the Huskies’ Final Four foe.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Later, Joel lies to Ellie, who was unconscious during his rescue mission, by saying raiders attacked the hospital.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The event kicked off with an opening dance, before the debutantes lined up for a waltz with their fathers, who were then passed onto their cavaliers for dancing with a live band.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Opal is described as a 5-pound red/brown cavapoo — a mix of a King Charles cavalier and a poodle.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2024

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“Infantryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantryman. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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