(n.) A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.
(2) Jacqui Janes, the mother of Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan on 5 October, received the letter days after her son's death.
(3) Maddan said: "What he didn't say was he had been involved in a most dramatic rescue … saved the life of one guardsman and showed his hard professionalism, awesome strength and the deep concern for his guardsmen that became his hallmark."
(4) The former Welsh guardsman, aged 50, was badly burned on board the Sir Galahad supply ship when it was bombed at Bluff Cove in the Falklands war in 1982.
(5) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook could not explain why he stabbed the boy in the kidneys in an unprovoked attack when he was hungover after a heavy session drinking vodka.
(6) Like many of his peers, the 73-year-old former Scots Guardsman remains fiercely proud of his Scottish identity – yet slightly ambivalent about the prospect of his homeland and his adopted land going their separate ways.
(7) The soldiers – who were tonight named by the Ministry of Defence as Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Acting Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith – were killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire at a checkpoint in the Nad-e'Ali district yesterday.
(8) Three of those charged are Sergeant Carle Selman, 38, of the Scots Guards, Guardsman Martin McGing, 21, and Guardsman Joseph McCleary, 23, both of the Irish Guards.
(9) The gaffe followed a series of front-page articles in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid taking the prime minister to task for a series of mistakes, including spelling Janes's surname as "James" in a condolence letter over the death of her Grenadier Guardsman son Jamie Janes in Afghanistan.
(10) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was suffering from a hangover after a heavy vodka drinking session when he bayoneted the boy, who was running an errand.
(11) It was thus inevitable that Brown should be blamed for sending Guardsman Jamie Janes to war and for keeping him dangerously exposed and un-reinforced.
(12) The defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, praised Guardsman Janes's "exemplary service".
(13) "Earlier this week on a My Sun discussion block, the surname of Jacqui Janes, the mother of guardsman Jamie Janes, was spelled incorrectly," said the Sun in an online apology .
(14) The court martial heard that the boy was running an errand when he was bayoneted by Grenadier guardsman Daniel Crook, who had a hangover from a heavy vodka drinking session.
(15) The Ministry of Defence named the five soldiers who died in the attack as Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Acting Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith.
(16) The 40-year-old, born in Walthamstow, north-east London, died alongside Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman James Major, 18, also from the Grenadier Guards; and Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.
(17) Guardsman Janes died in the way lived, "protecting his friends from danger", Major Richard Green, his company commander, said.
(18) Scott Brown, a truck-driving National Guardsman who was virtually unknown even in Massachusetts a few weeks ago, beat Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who had expected to inherit the seat, by 52% to 47%.
(19) "I was very sorry to learn of the death of Guardsman Jamie Janes, a soldier who, I'm told, had given exemplary service since joining the army at 16 and had a promising career ahead of him," he said.
(20) Relatives and friends of Guardsman Major, the youngest of those killed, wore "RIP Jimmy" T-shirts.
Soldier
Definition:
(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
(3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
(10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(15) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
(17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
(19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".