Examples of garrison in a Sentence
Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
Taiwan has a large military garrison on Kinmen, the scene of frequent fighting during the height of the Cold War, but Taiwan’s coast guard patrols its waters.
—Reuters, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
Liu Jie, the garrison’s commander, said the militia would assist the army in duties such as providing jobs to demobilized veterans or recruiting soldiers for the military.
—Laura He, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
At the likely cost of a few thousand casualties, the Ukrainian garrison in the industrial city—anchored by the army’s 110th Mechanized Brigade—killed or maimed perhaps 30,000 Russians from the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies.
—David Axe, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Most have targeted the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq, which is used by the U.S. military, and the American garrison at al-Tanf, in southern Syria, near the Iraqi and Jordanian borders.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2024
Their common origin stories — riverfront military garrisons that grew into bicultural communities — have diverged in ways that reflect the dynamics of this contested and polemical region.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Its garrison survived and had to be cleared out by infantry.
—Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Fort Leavenworth is the oldest U.S. Army garrison still in operation west of the Mississippi River.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
In response, the government had garrisoned six regiments of soldiers in the town, in a domestic invasion that became a kind of slow-burning civil war of factory owners, supported by the state, against workers.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
The dish is centered around a fort-like construction of Japanese-style honey toast, garrisoned with ice cream, mango, sticky rice, roti bread and a drizzle of this and that.
—Stuart Melling, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
Chinese troops have been garrisoned in Hong Kong since its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, but the PLA has historically kept a very low profile.
—James Griffiths, CNN, 26 May 2020
Within four years, with Roosevelt now in the White House, American troops arrived to garrison the Isthmus of Panama, where the United States, employing considerable chicanery, was setting out to build a canal.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
The attacks have also spilled into Niger, a vast desert nation that Western powers have been garrisoning into one of the world’s most strategic security hubs.
—Nick Kostov, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
One way to make sure real estate changes hands in just one direction would be by garrisoning friendly territory with mobile anti-ship missiles.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2020
According to the Telegraph’s Mike Wright, the fort likely served as a satellite of Isca Dumnoniorum, a military fortification garrisoned by 5,500 legionaries tasked with pacifying the fiercely resisting local populations in the region.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019
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Word History
Noun
Middle English garisoun "wealth, gift, tribute, protection, fortified place, body of soldiers," borrowed from Anglo-French garisun "protection, cure, income, supplies," from garir "to support, protect, cure" (going back to Old Low Franconian *warjan "to defend, prevent," going back to Germanic *warjan-) + -isun, deverbal noun suffix, going back to Latin -ītiōn-, -ītiō, from -ī-, verb stem formative + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at weir
Note: The Middle English sense "fortified place, body of soldiers" reflects confusion with Middle English garnisoun and Anglo-French garnisun "fortified place, body of armed men stationed in such a place," from Anglo-French garnir "to give notice, equip, arm, fortify" (see garnish entry 1) + the same suffix seen in garisun.
Verb
derivative of garrison entry 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Garrison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garrison. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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