How to Use reservist in a Sentence

reservist

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  • In 1991, Patrick deployed to the Gulf War as an army reservist.
    — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • That could test the resolve of the hundreds of reservists who have vowed to stay away.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Biggs has been in the Air Force for 22 years, all but four of them as a reservist.
    — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • At the time of its founding, all the members were Lake Arthur reservists.
    — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • By then, the Vietnam War had slowed down, so the Army allowed him to be a reservist.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
  • In 1948, six female Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the Navy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
  • Among them — an Army reservist who wore a Hitler mustache to his job at a Navy base.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Chron, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The Pentagon on Monday announced the names of the three Army reservists killed as Sgt.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Josh’s mom, Alice, was an Air Force reservist for 25 years.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • His own son Beau served as a reservist in the country before his death from brain cancer in 2015.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • The classmate said the pot patch belonged to his brother-in-law, a Coast Guard reservist stationed at Point Reyes.
    — Paul Elias, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There, resting on its back with arms open, was the body of a friend, Pasha Li, a 33-year-old Ukrainian actor turned reservist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • My turning point came as an Israeli reservist soldier serving in the Gaza refugee camps in the 1980s.
    — Yossi Klein Halevi, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Thousands of army, navy and air force reservists were being dispatched to battle the fires.
    — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2020
  • He was called up as a reservist during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, again as a paratrooper.
    — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
  • In 1948, six female US Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
  • Oleh, a military reservist, is married and has a 23-year-old son.
    — Nathan Smith, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Sonja Airikki, a 39-year-old reservist who will lead the training next month.
    — Michael Hunt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Mathews joined the Armed Forces as a reservist in 2010 and was a combat engineer at a base in Winnipeg.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • As part of his work as an Army reservist, Card was an instructor at a hand grenade training range.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • For the first time in Australia’s history, 3,000 army, navy and air force reservists have been called up and will be thrown into the battle against the fires.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2020
  • One of his first moves was to get rid of an U.S. Army reservist with finance expertise who had been assigned to help.
    — TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
  • About half are army reservists who in the past 10 days have returned to Israel from homes and jobs overseas to help secure the country and fight Hamas.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The reservists refusing to fly under Netanyahu are aware of that.
    — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Gold is now on a military base in the south, having been recruited as a reservist.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • One picture shows reservists training in a two-man sniper-spotter team.
    — Zachary Mider, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • All this as the numbers of reservists refusing to serve continued to rise.
    — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
  • Prior to Saturday, Brenner had either been used as a reservist off the bench, or not used at all.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2022
  • And the retirement age of army reservists has been temporarily extended to boost troop numbers.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 18 Sep. 2024
  • That has left the U.S. to have to search for indicators of a ground movement, such as Israel’s calling up large numbers of reservists or moving columns of tanks toward the Lebanese border, the officials said.
    — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024

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