How to Use veteran in a Sentence

veteran

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patterson, a 10-year veteran, caught the ball in the end zone, gathered a head of steam and outran the coverage up the middle.
    — George Henry, ajc, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Ajax’s veteran 40-year-old goalkeeper Remko Pasveer saved five penalties and even scored one of his own in a thrilling shootout.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Byard, though, scratched his head at that particular call, a team captain and ninth-year veteran who wasn’t so sure the Bears had put themselves in the best position to win.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024

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