Example sentences for: marines

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

  • But foul-ups on the ground resulted in the loss of eight aircraft, five airmen, and three marines.

  • The Marines should remember that the next time the studio comes asking for technical assistance on a picture (as it no doubt did on "Full Metal Jacket").

  • In 1983 came Hezbollah's massacre of the Marines in Beirut.

  • Marines amassed piles of heads during the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1901.

  • The slang of one military generation passes on to the next, so the Marines who called the Koreans gooks in the '50s and the Vietnamese gooks in the '60s and '70s were the linguistic heirs of the Marines who called the Nicaraguans gooks in 1912.


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