Example sentences for: commando

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

  • President Clinton relied on the advice of General Shelton, who informed him that without intelligence on Bin Ladin's location, a commando raid's chance of failure was high.

  • ) Time also runs a disturbing report from Baghdad, where Iraqi commando units proved their battle-readiness by gutting a live dog on television while chanting, "Our God, our nation, our leader!"

  • "As president of the United States, he didn't feel he was potentially powerful enough to exercise" his options, said former Newt aide Tony Blankley, now opinionizing on CNN's Late Edition . Almost alone supporting the president was Mark Shields ( Capital Gang , NewsHour ), who said the "commando columnists" calling for Saddam's scalp must understand that assassinating him was "never a possibility" during Gulf War I and isn't "a possibility now."

  • In a profile of the country's new leader, Dawn said Musharraf was an army commando for seven years and served in "several self-propelled artillery regiments"--a phrase from his official biography.

  • A special Israeli commando force stormed the plane, killed all the terrorists, and rescued all but one of the hostages.


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