Example sentences for: pentagon

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

  • The winner of the toss, MIT computer scientist Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (or "Lick," as he insisted on being called), got the top job at an obscure government agency known as the Command and Control Research Division, a division of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which was created after Sputnik to close the purported gap between Soviet and American science.

  • Most were defense contractors--quiet, bureaucratic firms that churned punch cards for the Pentagon and had no social cachet.

  • The Pentagon attack killed 184 nonterrorists, including the occupants of the hijacked aircraft.

  • Yet the Pentagon response encountered difficulties that echo those experienced in New York.

  • A muckraking cover story investigates how the Pentagon disposes of surplus weapons (the short answer: badly).


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