Recent Examples on the WebThe researchers said it was commonly used by infantrymen during that period, the late Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance, and may have been used by troops on a ship.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024 Read the Winning Stories Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine
In the trenches in the Donbas, infantrymen face unrelenting horrors, from missiles to grenades to helicopter fire.—The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 An infantryman, in charge of a rocket launcher, Andriy lost his left hand after being hit by a shell a few months ago in the Donetsk region.—Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024 Upward of 50 others, including some infantrymen from the Arizona National Guard, were injured.—Tim Craig, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024 Born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, the vocalist used the GI Bill to study singing after serving as an infantryman in World War II and was signed to Columbia Records by 1949.—Ew Staff, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023 Then, shortly after 6 p.m., a vast phalanx of tanks, armored vehicles, bulldozers, infantrymen and combat engineers entered northern Gaza — unseen and unreported.—Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023 More recently, Tytler and his young wife, Harriet Tytler—she eight months pregnant, with two small children at her side—had narrowly escaped Delhi in 1857, when the sepoys, or Indian infantrymen, mutinied.—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023 The only signs of roadside life were the silhouettes of Israeli infantrymen who guarded the route at strategic intervals.—Patrick Kingsley Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
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