How to Use infantry in a Sentence

infantry

noun

• He joined the infantry after leaving school.
• More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  — Mark Yost, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Stryker can transport a full squad of nine infantry troops and a crew of two.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
• Like an infantry squad in such a film, each player has a hook.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• The others lying there were all part of an infantry squad.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• Both of those killed were infantry soldiers in the Givati Brigade, the military said.
  — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• Its crew of two can transport nine infantry troops at sustained speeds of 60 mph.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• The Marine’s unit had engaged a platoon of Iraqi infantry.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• The Marder can travel at 40 miles per hour and carry three crew and six infantry, Forbes reports.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 9 Jan. 2023
• In the Marines, infantry and reconnaissance jobs have been all-male.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• For that, Crossman dressed the Russian infantry in green and the Russian cavalry in white.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
• The Old Guard is the oldest active-duty Army infantry unit, serving since 1784.
  — Josh Morgan, USA Today, 25 May 2023
• Out-of-print books and binders stuffed with obscure infantry rosters weigh down sagging shelves.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• As his infantry unit faced being overrun in South Korea in 1950, the teenage soldier from Buen ...
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 24 May 2023
• The enemy infantry did not even think about moving here.
  — Ivana Kottasova, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Their pace of fire had picked up as Ukrainian infantry advanced: 60 rounds overnight, Gerych said, compared to the usual 40 or so.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• There was a rapid pop, pop, pop as rifle fire pounded the dirt and trees and Russian infantry edged closer and closer.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• Support from tanks is vital, in turn, for protecting infantry on the ground.
  — David Kilcullen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2023
• Large groups of Russian infantry can be seen being struck by artillery.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Hungarian infantry wore various shades of brown, and Napoleon’s army was in blue.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
• This mobile assault gun is designed to boost the firepower of light infantry troops.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• Today, women make up about 2 percent of Army infantry and tank units.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The standard-issue infantry weapon worldwide is a machine gun.
  — Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• These women worked as pilots, snipers, sapers (mine hunters), and regular infantry, and were vital to the defeat of the Germans.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• But both of Bateson’s brothers died young—one in a hopeless infantry charge just a few weeks before the end of the First World War, and one by suicide four years later.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The demining teams work by clearing a path about 2 feet wide, allowing the infantry to walk forward.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Charts detail the strengths and weakness of cavalry and sword-wielding and shielded infantry.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Beside the museum is one of the country’s largest Army bases, which trains America’s infantry.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
• Overshadowed by high-tech killing tools and the blunt power of howitzers and mortars, Ukraine’s snipers are part of a more rudimentary force: the infantry.
  — Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024