(n.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(2) The training in small arms, infantry tactics and basic medical skills will take place in Turkey and is part of a US-led effort aimed at helping thousands of Syrian fighters over the next three years.
(3) Radio Misrata reported that three Gaddafi tanks had joined infantry on an attack on the front line, but that the rebel positions had not been penetrated.
(4) The Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a motorised defence infantry battalion stationed near the Ukrainian border for "training" for a month had begun the journey back to its base.
(5) High risk groups included the Garrison Force (home guard), anti-aircraft gunners and infantry and armoured units stationed at Hsing-jen.
(6) The available evidence indicates that, unless their duties involve compulsory fitness training (recruits) or hard physical work (infantry soldiers), the military in Canada have aerobic fitness levels which are not markedly higher than their civilian counterparts.
(7) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
(8) The highest increase took place in lower limb and muscular overuse conditions in the youngest and most junior members of the infantry, especially when undergoing basic training.
(9) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment is more than 300 years old and has won more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.
(10) German mechanised infantry crossed into Poland at the weekend after thousands of Nato forces inaugurated exercises as part of the new buildup in the east.
(11) During the initial six week period of deployment and jungle training in Belize, a 634 man strong infantry battalion group sustained twenty-three machete hand injuries.
(12) An infantry battalion as part of an Airmobile Brigade took part in a field exercise in Germany during mid summer 1984.
(13) Rp578, UK infantry corporal, Afghanistan and Iraq I served on both Iraq and Afghanistan as an Infantry NCO, being called up as a reservist on both occasions.
(14) After days of infantry assaults and bombardments in which dozens of rebel fighters have been killed and at least 45 wounded, the Misrata military council says pleas for Nato air support have gone unanswered.
(15) Transgender people could serve in the British infantry in close combat roles, according to a senior officer responsible for personnel.
(16) Injuries to armored vehicle crewmembers are characterized by a large number of burn casualties, a larger percentage of fractures and traumatic amputations with extremity wounds, and a higher mortality when compared with infantry footsoldier combat casualty statistics.
(17) You need to think in each case … who’s in, who is kept out and how the enforcement of it is done.” Any campaign would probably need snipers, radar and recon teams, artillery and special operations teams – if not full infantry battalions, Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, has noted in Foreign Policy .
(18) "After the emergency rescue operations we are now clearing debris and helping disaster victims resume normal life and dispensing medical care," says Lieutenant Kimura of the fifth infantry regiment, ninth division.
(19) Paxman said he did not subscribe to the "lions led by donkeys" description of the British infantry in the first world war which was the source of much of Gove's anger.
(20) The authors have combined their experience of recent changes in the Health Service Support of a separate mechanized infantry brigade during 10-day field training exercises conducted by the same population, in the same geographical area, and in the same season in 4 consecutive years.
Musket
Definition:
(n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.
(n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Didier Deschamps, the big call for this last-16 challenge was whether to pick Antoine Griezmann or Olivier Giroud to join Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena as the third attacking musketeer in France’s system.
(2) "Everybody's dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid.
(3) He said one word: D’Artagnan.” The noble musketeer fighting against the forces of evil is a positive portrayal.
(4) Kate Harwood, who has overseen hits including Cranford, Luther, Five Daughters and The Musketeers during her 24 years at the BBC , will join Fremantle as managing director of Euston Films in the summer.
(5) The second episode of BBC1's 10-part drama The Musketeers, which stars Peter Capaldi, suffered an audience dip of more than 1 million viewers, but remained the top-rating show in the 9pm hour against ITV's Mr Selfridge.
(6) Among them was 37-year-old Yusuf Idris, who bought a $40 (£26) home-made musket and joined his friends in a civilian vigilante effort after a savage assault in 2013 turned Baga into Nigeria’s new ground zero against Boko Haram .
(7) It was up against the last in the second series of ITV's Mr Selfridge, watched by 4.9 million viewers, a 21.5% share, once again ahead of its BBC1 drama rival, The Musketeers, which had 4.2 million viewers (18.6%) for its penultimate outing.
(8) Christie’s said interest in Picasso’s late period musketeer portraits has grown dramatically in recent years.
(9) When Lord North, prime minister at the time of the American revolution, received the news that British forces had lost the war, and with it the American colonies, he was reported to have been physically struck by the magnitude of the news, as if hit by a musket ball.
(10) Dedicated to the 1960s cinematographic heyday of Almería, the nearby provincial capital, it is plastered with location photos from Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and The Three Musketeers, which were all filmed round here.
(11) In the battle of the 9pm dramas, it was Mr Selfridge that took the ratings honours, the ITV department store series was watched by 4.9 million viewers (21.5%) ahead of BBC1's The Musketeers, with 4.7 million viewers (20.4%).
(12) Despite the audience dip Musketeers was once again easily ahead of Mr Selfridge.
(13) Two centuries ago the round shot had screamed about the streets and the crackle of muskets resounded in its encircling country lanes.
(14) The mix of fierce individualism with the spirit of the three musketeers ("All for one and one for all") has kept American society internally dynamic and externally on top of its game.
(15) "Hangs him plain as day in the corner of his living room, next to the musket he was shot with."
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Yet Redwood’s remark that the national argument resembled “the English civil war without muskets” was more than a quip.
(18) Later, due to its popularity, they broadened the series out to talk about everything from slow-motion musket firing to the chemical properties of caffeine.
(19) For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.
(20) She was memorably described as one of the "three musketeers" of independent film finance in the UK, along with two other contenders for the MediaGuardian 100 – Christine Langan , creative director of BBC Films, and Tanya Seghatchian , head of the UK Film Council's lottery supported development fund.