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Example sentences for "active duty"

  • In other words, while I was on 6 months' training, they activated the 49th Armored Division and I was called in to stay 9 extra months on active duty.

  • Where were you stationed while on active duty?

  • I was--I completed my freshman year and then I went on active duty to serve my 2-year obligation in the Marine Reserve.

  • What was your rank when you went on active duty?

  • Not long after I received my degree in aeronautical engineering, the Korean War started, and I went back on active duty.

  • He'd been released from active duty because he was needed back at Cal Tech, where he'd been working on an important government project before his recall to active duty.

  • Lieutenant Jerry Cummings, who had recently been recalled to active duty, took over the project.

  • Sergeant Holmburg is now a commissioned warrant officer and still on active duty in the Marine Corps.

  • The captain was a gentleman named Tibbet Czik, and Captain Czik is still on active duty in the Marine Corps.

  • Another fellow that probably knows him is now on active duty--Fred Walker.

  • A year later the man had resumed active duty, and, except for occasional pain on stooping, considered himself well.

  • The man a year later was still on active duty, the paralysis almost well, and no further ill effects of the injury remained.

  • Darden's term to modify the poll tax requirement as applied to Virginia members of the armed forces on active duty.

  • Article XVII, already described in this chapter under Article II, provides for poll tax exemption for members of the armed forces on active duty.

  • Finally, through the intervention of the black press and black organizations and the efforts of Thurgood Marshall and Lester Granger, the convictions were set aside and the men restored to active duty.

  • By V-J day the Navy had four black nurses on active duty.

  • Do you want me to continue, or would you rather return to active duty at your squadron?

  • And it will help you to get back to active duty sooner, let me say that there'll be a decoration for you two for the wonderful job you've done.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "active duty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active business; active duty; active interest; active member; active operations; active verb; active volcanism; active volcano; active volcanoes; active work; because their; being asked; better make; continental countries; deductive reasoning; east and; entering upon; for there; great ones; holy unto; machine tool; much obleeged; night and; show his; well buttered; whether male