soldier - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • horseback: Soldiers on horseback provide mobility and speed to an army commander.
  • battlefield: And as the battle spread, they defeated the Israelites, killing about four thousand soldiers on the battlefield.

Converse of subject

  • rape: Come to an Amnesty event Act now for Bitondo Nyumba who was beaten and raped by government soldiers from her own country.

Adjective modifier

  • wounded: London was overcrowded with wounded soldiers begging in the streets.
  • British: During both world wars, tons of the black stuff was shipped to British soldiers around the globe.
  • Iraqi: Iraqi soldiers were sent to take the peace campers to Baghdad for evacuation.
  • German: From a German soldier who fought in Russia: " Do you know how we behaved to the civilians?
  • American: Some American soldiers also were seen inside the compound.

Converse of object

  • kill: The militants killed five UN soldiers in the attack.

Modifies a noun

  • heavyweapons: When g_heavyweaponrestriction is at 0, for some unfathomable reason this means zero restriction for artillery, and zero allowed soldier heavyweapons.

Preposition: in

  • trench: Letters could be written in Scots from soldiers in the trenches to loved ones back home.

Preposition: of

  • legion: A soldier of the Theban Legion martyred near Ventimiglia in Italy.

Preposition: with

  • bayonet: Just a week before the opening ceremony soldiers with fixed bayonets charged a crowd of over 15,000.

Noun used with modifier

  • infantry: They train as infantry soldiers at weekends and on drill nights.
  • enemy: This will either stun or kill all enemy soldiers.
  • front-line: He also had the revolutionary idea of using front-line soldiers as news sources.
  • foot: The soldiers of the castle would include Archers and foot soldiers as well as the mounted Knights.
  • coalition: The Iraqis destroyed one coalition APC wounding two coalition soldiers.

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