(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".
Trooper
Definition:
(n.) A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(2) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
(3) Tonight they’re dancing the Paso Doble to Sarah Brightman's 'I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper'.
(4) The oldest, 87-year-old Louis Becker, was killed during a collision with a New York state trooper patrol car in upstate New York.
(5) Outside a town centre cafe, I talk to two people who have scars from the long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Tesco: Eroica Mildmay, a model-turned-novelist who swears like a trooper, and Margarette Norman, a local freelance journalist.
(6) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
(7) For more than 30 minutes senators milled around the floor and protesters shouted from the gallery, before troopers moved in, arresting at least one protester.
(8) State troopers were posted along the route to Islamberg, but the ride passed without event.
(9) In the early hours of 2 May 1973, Assata Shakur was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper named James Harper, allegedly for driving with a faulty rearlight.
(10) As the proceedings became more and more tumultuous, state troopers threaded through the crowd, making some arrests and trying to clear the gallery.
(11) We were the storm-troopers of diversity, decades before that term was even invented.
(12) The courtroom was packed with relatives of the prisoners' victims, who included a police officer killed by Augustine in 2001, and a highway patrol trooper and sheriff's deputy killed by Golphin in 1997.
(13) Minutes after they pulled over, both Zayd Malik Shakur and Trooper Foerster were dead, and Assata and Trooper Harper were shot and wounded.
(14) In fact, men in uniform from the sheriff’s department and state troopers were already being used to turn people back on Highway 1806, which goes south from the Bismarck area to the reservation.
(15) In 2010 a former Alabama state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, pleaded guilty to the 1965 shooting of civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson and received a six-month prison sentence.
(16) So I set out to keep my word to the trooper, the first law enforcement official to show genuine kindness and compassion.
(17) Valley Stream troopers pulled over a black Hyundai for driving 79mph in a 55mph zone.
(18) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
(19) A dozen state troopers were stationed outside the building, alongside scores of protesters in orange shirts, carrying coat hangers and signs that read: "Shame", according to Dallas News .
(20) "Based on preliminary information … the agent along with two Massachusetts state police troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," Couvertier said in a statement.