Example sentences for: cavalry

How can you use “cavalry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It contains the imperial cavalry: 900 soldiers, 116 saddled horses, and 356 horses hitched to 89 chariots.

  • He had been an audacious cavalry officer in the Anglo-Burmese wars and now exploited the situation for his own benefit.

  • It's war-on-poverty-style over-promising without any war-on-poverty cavalry to back it up.

  • Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.

  • At the same time, the cavalry officer's sabre, a much-coveted battle trophy, gave rise to the alternative nickname of Long Knives , a sobriquet that combined light-hearted jeering with wary respect.


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