Example sentences for: infantry

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

  • The imperial administration for this undertaking demanded a huge bureaucracy, with superintendents, accountants, and clerks overseeing commerce, forestry, armory, weights and measures, goldsmiths, prostitutes, ships, cows and horses, elephants, chariots, and infantry.

  • The Italian Army was the least well prepared of the combatants, lacking artillery, machine guns, trucks, and properly trained officers, but the infantry showed remarkable courage in the trenches.

  • Later he served in the same capacity on the Macedonian front and then, as Britain relaxed its standards in its need for cannon fodder, in an infantry battalion.

  • My father (infantry, World War II) had a favorite scene in a service comedy: in No Time for Sergeants , when Andy Griffith made those toilet seats stand at attention.

  • Critics of the war observed, rightly, that NATO was protecting itself rather than the Kosovars by refusing to risk its pilots in low-flying missions or its infantry in a ground invasion.


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