How to Use soldier in a Sentence

soldier

1 of 2 noun
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  • Many soldiers were wounded in combat.
  • The movie ends on a tableau of soldiers at the climax of a battle scene.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Five of them would go off to the Civil War as Union soldiers.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The lyric talks about having a heart of steel — and in that siege, soldiers were camped out in a steel plant.
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • Most of their mothers worked in bars catering to the soldiers.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Some soldiers are on horseback, and some play in bands.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • There are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • All but one of the 15 soldier deaths were on Friday and Saturday.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Suen showed a photo of him standing next to the soldier to his dinner guests.
    — Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Soon a bench appears — and then a guard post with an Israeli soldier.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The United States has about 1,100 soldiers based in Niger and operates a drone base there.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
    — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The mutinous soldiers in Niger flew to Mali this week, and met with the military junta there.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, there are no American soldiers at war in Ukraine.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • To date, 221 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat.
    — Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The plot thickens when up-to-no-good soldiers show up in town, the same soldiers who took Emily’s mother away.
    — Jackie Hoermann, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There has been no agreement with Hamas for the release of Israeli soldiers or civilian males.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The gun was first auditioned with South Vietnamese soldiers in 1962.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The missive was signed by Tarzan, a pseudonym used by an anonymous soldier during the war.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But in general, the soldiers are so interchangeable that they may as well all be called Bucky.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024
  • One bedroom was crowded with the soldiers’ backpacks and equipment.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But even at that rally, some soldiers back from the front sought to minimize differences.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And the soldiers made up a lot of time by traveling on a steamboat and pursuing him into Virginia.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Russia has publicly acknowledged the deaths of just over 6,000 soldiers.
    — Erika Kinetz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • At the first checkpoint, controlled by Sudan’s army, soldiers warned them to hide their jewelry before the next stop, which would be manned by RSF.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • In a bold slap at the military, Dr. Almada once proposed that teacher salaries be raised to match soldiers’ pay.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • So younger families are a bit more used to having their soldiers living at home most of the time, reporting for drills once a month and for two weeks in the summer.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Thirteen soldiers were hanged less than 24 hours later.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Over the course of some three decades, Joseph Kony recruited thousands of child soldiers to serve in his fearsome guerrilla group.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
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soldier

2 of 2 verb
  • Pittman left the restaurant in mid-2019 and the restaurant soldiered on.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • So Slaton soldiered on, and turned to DNA to refine the search.
    — Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2017
  • In an era of remote work, the need to soldier on has prevailed.
    — Megan Carnegie, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the rest of the Band soldiered on without a lead guitarist.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Even when his guitar amp went out in the middle of the set, Mohr and the band soldiered on unfazed.
    — Jason Keil, azcentral, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The prospect of Mueller soldiering on through a shutdown might be a mixed blessing for the White House.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Gege asked in the car on the way to school, which stayed open thanks to teachers who soldiered on in dim, chilly classrooms.
    — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And kids learn to soldier into the world with what a cynic might describe as naiveté.
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • As such, the Spurs will soldier on and try to find ways to mitigate the effects of the NBA’s sprint-packed-into-a-marathon.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • With Mr Joyce out, at least until the by-election, the coalition could just soldier on.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Today, the show soldiered on with its press day in Beverly Hills.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Despite all of that, Lauvergne has soldiered on and even got his first start Thursday night.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2017
  • The cost to cave was measured against the certainty that the company would soldier on with a chance at greatness.
    — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Unfortunately, that is not the case, and the Cavs must soldier on without him.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Further, the lack of resupply is crushing to soldier morale.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Eflin and Arrieta could soldier on the rest of the year, and Drew Smyly could prove to be a solid free-agent addition.
    — Mitchell Gladstone, SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • Venus soldiered through her first match but without her usual mirth.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • The driver, a man who soldiers said behaved in a friendly manner, made a phone call to someone in the capital.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • There was something about soldiering, though, that fired his imagination and moved him to quit the bank.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2018
  • Admiration for the docs and nurses and parents who soldier through an ordeal that seems to have no end in sight.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2020
  • And this, dear Nashville fans who are still soldiering on till this thing ends or Teddy gets out of prison, is where Darius comes in.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Dion soldiered through, still taking in each gown while dotting her eyes with a handkerchief.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2019
  • My father, of prime age for soldiering in WWII, never wore a uniform.
    — Fred Niedner, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2019
  • These 5 resilience-building habits seemed to help couples soldier on.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 July 2021
  • Neto warmed up, but the number 1 was able to recover and soldier on to half time with Barca cushioning a 2-1 lead.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Others will soldier on, not least the alpha who ended up a domestique.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Still, Zuckerberg soldiered on, making his point, which happens to be largely true.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 26 June 2019
  • Done soldiering, Anthony’s son, Stubbins (a name not hung on a boy much these days), took over inhaling flour dust for the next 57 years.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 18 July 2017
  • But eventually, as guests wound up atop tables and chairs to show off their dance moves, their shoes were left aside—but Tiffany Haddish soldiered on.
    — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2018
  • There was no treatment, I was told, and left to soldier on as if nothing was happening, for fear I’d be accused of being slovenly yet again.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 11 June 2022

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