Example sentences for: troops

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

  • The Times said in an editorial that "the growing demoralisation of Serb troops should be ammunition reinforcing the case for the immediate use in combat of America's Apache attack helicopters, as part of a more precise and sophisticated military strategy to drive Serb forces out of Kosovo."

  • The WP downplays the casualties as well, running its Bosnia story at the bottom of the front page, omitting mention of them in its headline--"Bosnian Serb's Backers Stone American Troops"--and not getting to them in the piece until the seventh paragraph.

  • Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians moving towards Jewish settlements.

  • General MacNair, commander of all U. S. ground troops, it stated that less authoritarianism and greater courtesy must thenceforth characterize all orders to enlisted men, and it closed with “the day of the shouting sergeant is over.”

  • Barcelona was one of the last cities to fall to the rebel troops of General Francisco Franco at the war’s end in 1939.


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