Example sentences for: marines

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

  • Charges against the other two Marines in the back of the plane were dropped, though they will likely testify in the upcoming court martial.

  • Similarly, why is the Post waiting until page 32 to tell us that the U.S. has decided to send more than 2,000 Marines into Kosovo as part of a multi-national peace-keeping force?

  • Reagan pulled the Marines out of Lebanon both because of the bombing that killed 250 of them and because the Marines didn't have a mission there in the first place.

  • 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 Wall Street Journal reports that Warner Bros. has refused a request from the Marines to use a clip from its movie "Full Metal Jacket" in a training CD-ROM about how to survive sniper attacks.


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