Example sentences for: marines

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

  • This was the president who pulled out of Lebanon after Marines were bombed there.

  • After the killing of the marines in Beirut, President Reagan signed National Security Directive 138, calling for a "shift . . . from passive to active defense measures" and reprogramming or adding new resources to effect the shift.

  • The Marines Should Have Landed

  • 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.

  • We did forward and backward rolls, learned to escape from various holds, and executed the sort of belly-crawl that marines always seem to be doing in movies about basic training.


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