infantryman

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Recent Examples of infantryman About 3,000 Union infantrymen approached, put out the conflagration, and then fired on the Rangers. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Mar. 2024 Viktor, the infantryman, ducks his head under a canopy of camouflage netting and looks up at the brightening sky. Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024 Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — Often the anonymous infantrymen of baseball’s pitching staffs, relievers finally got some recognition Saturday at Oracle Park. Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024 Like Sisi, Sobhy began his military career as an infantryman, pursued graduate studies at the Egyptian Command and Staff College, attended the Nasser Higher Military Academy, and completed a fellowship at the U.S. Army War College, in Pennsylvania. Eric Trager, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2014 See all Example Sentences for infantryman 
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Noun
  • These cavalrymen participated in the Third Battle of Winchester, a key victory for the Union.
    Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The novel begins in 1864 with a young man named Bird waking up from a bad dream to the sound of cannon fire and gunshots: Hundreds of U.S. Army cavalrymen are descending on his Cheyenne and Arapaho camp in what will eventually be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 27 Feb. 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
  • The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In 2015, members of the Islamic State (IS) destroyed parts of the ancient city, and shortly afterwards the area saw fighting between Kurdish and IS soldiers.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The family, Louisville residents, also enjoyed some pizza and crab dragoons from the food trucks.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2024
  • What happens with Hermann and the dragoon?
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • He’s given more responsibility as a foot soldier of the bank.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The former president’s supporters are determined that a second Trump administration would be much more organized than the first, stocked with foot soldiers who are both loyal and capable of moving policy forward.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The base’s military police or grunts from the base under other commanders would be dispatched to his apartment.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • While Jim was cashing NFL checks, John scraped by as a coaching grunt at five colleges, catching his break when Ray Rhodes hired him to lead the special teams with the Eagles.
    Dan Pompei, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • While raiders still rampaged, the Tonkawa more than doubled the number of the city's defenders.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Nov. 2024
  • More than 800 years ago, raiders threw a dead body into a well outside a Norwegian castle.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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 21 Dec. 2024.

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