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Example sentences for "infantrymen"

Lexicographically close words:
infantile; infantilism; infantine; infantry; infantryman; infants; infantum; infare; infarnal; infatuate
  1. In 602, the city of Cartagena appointed him to raise one hundred and fifty infantrymen who were embarked in the galleys of España.

  2. When the said his brother took two thousand infantrymen for the fleet, he served on it.

  3. The infantrymen who were gassing our listening-posts were given no recognition signals for their tanks.

  4. That listening-post in the dead sector, with the two strayed infantrymen in it.

  5. A hundred aircraft above the heads of the two strayed infantrymen were fighting madly about five helicopters.

  6. In the cold, luminous night, the heavily laden infantrymen defiled into the narrow trench, calm, silent, and serious.

  7. I knew that behind them, lying by sections in the plough-land, thousands and thousands of infantrymen had their eyes fixed in the direction I was taking, and that hundreds and hundreds of guns were ready to pour out death.

  8. Our chiefs had said: "You must leave your horses, you must forget that you ever were cavalrymen, you must make up your minds cheerfully to your new calling and become infantrymen for the time being.

  9. Our two infantrymen had come to the spot where the hare had fallen, very nearly half-way between the French and the German lines.

  10. A dozen Belgian mounted infantrymen dashed up the road, leapt the low wall of the farm steading, and shouted to them to surrender.

  11. The three infantrymen in the wagon were obviously amazed, not so much at being ordered about by a Uhlan, as at the apparent purposelessness of the command.

  12. Three-quarters of the way up we stopped and got a drink of water from the Infantrymen in charge of the water barrels.

  13. It gave me a queer thrill to see British Infantrymen again after many months, and this time on Italian soil.

  14. Sixteen,--ten infantrymen from old Fort Bethune, under command of Syd.

  15. Half a dozen Tulan infantrymen brought up their rear.

  16. The enemy infantrymen in their hundreds of thousands hit the Tulan line in a clash of deafening military thunder.

  17. There were places toward the end of the peninsula where Turkish infantrymen had to huddle in their trenches under fire of this sort coming from three directions.

  18. This man was as different from the little infantrymen we had so often seen as the air of that town was different from deserted Paris.

  19. Rifles began to crackle from the Prussian trenches, and to his amazement, after firing a few rounds in reply, the French infantrymen ran for the cover of the brush.

  20. She could see German horsemen and German infantrymen everywhere, the moonlight flashing on their helmets and rifles as they moved rapidly about.

  21. He saw his own infantrymen take to the communicating trenches and disappear, plainly as a part of the plan.

  22. He did not know that these infantrymen were a decoy, a part of the plan of the French to draw the enemy down within easy range of their machine guns.

  23. But he had greater success with the infantrymen of the Household troops--a force whose character, as in a measure its physique, has deteriorated since the adoption of the three years’ service system.

  24. One officer, probably an infantryman, has written, that the infantrymen are called doughboys because they are the flower of the army.

  25. There were seven infantrymen and an artilleryman.

  26. The infantrymen of the lead company crossed the stream and stood guard while the engineers repaired the bridge.

  27. Two tanks were called up, and after they had knocked over the shacks the infantrymen closed in and destroyed the enemy.

  28. Since the infantrymen did not arrive during the day, the tanks withdrew at nightfall.

  29. Although the primary mission of the infantry is to close with the enemy and destroy or capture him, the natural reluctance of American infantrymen to engage the enemy in close quarters had to be overcome.

  30. Because of the difficult terrain and the blazing heat, the infantrymen experienced difficulty in keeping up with the tanks.

  31. The tanks finally silenced the enemy, and the infantrymen moved in with rifles and bazookas and cleared out the foxholes.

  32. The Japanese held their fire until the infantrymen were upon them, making it necessary for the artillery to fire at very close range.

  33. However, since the artillery fire enabled the infantry to secure many heavily fortified positions with few casualties, the infantrymen tended to become too dependent upon the artillerymen and expected them to do the work of the infantry.

  34. In some instances the tanks secured objectives when no infantrymen were present to consolidate and hold the positions.

  35. The infantrymen encountered only an occasional rifleman while mopping up.

  36. D+3, 18 June When the infantrymen ashore woke the next morning, they looked out in amazement at the empty ocean and a wave of uneasy questions raced through their minds: “Where in hell are our ships?

  37. Money also came to him from Cleopatra, so that to each of the infantrymen was given one hundred denarii[54] and to the rest a proportionate allowance.

  38. Five infantrymen had been killed, twelve were wounded badly enough to be out of the fighting lists for the present, while twenty-two others, though more or less wounded, were still fit for duty.

  39. As he spoke, he attracted the attention of General Caldwell, who commanded some infantrymen who had come to the assistance of the Rangers.

  40. The infantrymen at the gate began to throw down their arms and try to surrender.

  41. The Mexicans were taken completely by surprise, were disarmed at the door of the prison, and saw the Texans dash into the outer court of the building where about one hundred and fifty infantrymen were guarding the arms and boxes of cartridges.

  42. It was fought and won by the picked infantrymen of Spain and Italy; the day of seamanship had not yet arrived.

  43. At a feeble altitude they follow the attacking infantrymen and flash back wireless reports of the engagement.

  44. The Nevsky widens for a space before the Gastenidwor (the Russian adaptation of the oriental bazaar), and infantrymen were now detailed to hold the people back at the point of the bayonet.

  45. Illustration: Above--American negro infantrymen advancing toward the front in the Argonne along a screened highway.

  46. The railway embankment from which I viewed the battle was fairly carpeted with corpses of infantrymen killed yesterday.

  47. All the same the cavalrymen stuck up for their colonel, and the infantrymen respected him, and the matinées were business-like and profitable.

  48. In ten minutes they ride with foaming reins in behind a low ridge on which, flat on their faces and cautiously peering over the crest, some hundred infantrymen are disposed.

  49. The infantrymen said they had captured you, but the airmen said their fire had brought down your plane.

  50. And yet, to the credit of airmen in general, let it be said that the German aviators treat their fellow, prisoners better than the Hun infantrymen do.

  51. The airmen claimed you as their prey, and the infantrymen said they were entitled to call you theirs.

  52. Still, when black infantrymen joined the constabulary in late 1948, they came in three battalion-size units "attached" for training and tactical control.

  53. The doctrine that all marines were potential infantrymen stood, but it was small comfort to civil rights activists who feared that what at best was a nominal black representation in the corps was being pushed into the kitchen.

  54. But the effect on the infantrymen is the important thing.

  55. It has been hard, waiting, but it must have been a great deal worse for the infantrymen who are billeted in all of the surrounding villages.

  56. But infantrymen are to be forgiven readily for their outbursts against the aviation service.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infantrymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.