the Marines

noun

: the part of a country's military forces that includes soldiers who serve on a ship or are closely associated with a naval force : the U.S. Marine Corps or the British Royal Marines

Examples of the Marines in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fox News Digital reached out to the Marines for comment. —Stepheny Price, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2024

When a sitting Haitian president was assassinated in 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent in the Marines to protect American interests and secure stability. —Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2024

The review team concluded that the Marines had conflated the intelligence reports with an earlier spotting of a man wearing beige clothes and carrying a black bag. —Compiled Bydemocrat Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Apr. 2024

In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March 2023, Vargas-Andrews said the Marines and others involved in the evacuation were given descriptions of men believed to be plotting an attack. —Courtney Kube, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024

After graduating, Gallego joined the Marines and was deployed to Iraq with the Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. —Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024

Earlier this week, the Armed Forces branch announced that women in the Marines will no longer be required to wear pantyhose with their uniform skirt. —Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024

For the Marines, the U.S. military’s rapid response force, the task was to delay the enemy’s advance until reinforcements arrived. —Josh Lederman, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024

Moulton was commissioned into the Marines in March 2019 and was promoted to captain in August. —Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024