Example sentences for: commandos

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

  • It came in April 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis, when Navy helicopters with Marine pilots flew to a site known as Desert One, some 200 miles southeast of Tehran, to rendezvous with Air Force planes carrying Delta Force commandos and fresh fuel.

  • The biggest news today is a startling development: British commandos, with U.S. logistic support and full NATO and Hague backing, moved in on two Bosnian Serb officials accused of war crimes, killing one in a firefight and capturing the other.

  • The same paper reported that 80 British SAS commandos had been sent deep into Kosovo to target the Serb Special Police and army units for NATO aircraft, find and mark massacre sites, locate the hideouts of death squad leaders, and find secret Serb weapons arsenals.

  • (Between the Leicesters and Bill Gates, the notebook was owned for a dozen or so years by Armand Hammer--who, with his unerring flair for the ludicrous, insisted it be called the Codex Hammer and claimed that he had retained a squad of elite commandos trained in kung fu and armed with Uzis to guard it round the clock.)

  • Delta commandos are known to have participated in U.S. military action in Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and Somalia.


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