(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.
Troopship
Definition:
(n.) A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 433 exhausted refugees stranded off Christmas Island face at least another week at sea, as the Australian government today prepares to transfer them to a troopship in preparation for a seven-day journey to New Zealand and Nauru via Papua New Guinea.
(2) When she left him and their son, Robin, in southern Africa in 1944, returning to Britain alone on a troopship, the boy was just five years old.