How to Use active service in a Sentence

active service

noun

• The armistice found the two most prominent Texas units on active service in France.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
• There may be other options to take the rail out of active service.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• At the time of the invasion, Russia had about 3,400 tanks in active service.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, the Chinese navy, which is the largest in the world by hull count, sent to sea all of its aircraft carriers that are in active service.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
• Shared perks Often, the perks that the active service member receives will also be available to their spouse.
  — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 27 May 2025
• Siringo was appointed a New Mexico Ranger in 1916 and for two years saw active service against cattle rustlers.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• After 10 years of active service, Morgan joined the Army Reserve as his music career began to take off.
  — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
• China has a fleet of more than 370 ships and submarines, which includes two aircraft carriers in active service.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
• Chili’s Chili’s is offering a free meal to veterans and active service members.
  — Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
• Biden supports a system in which the president would appoint a justice every two years to spend eighteen years in active service on the Supreme Court, according to a fact sheet provided by the White House.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• As an athlete with high grades, he was accepted to West Point, securing a place as a cadet in return for five years of active service after graduation.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• There are reportedly nine A-50s still in active service in the Russian military.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Given their ages and debilities, these soldiers had been deemed unfit for active service.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Chinese navy has two aircraft carriers in active service, while a third is expected to be operational in the first half of 2025, according to the Pentagon.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
• Many veterans returned to active service when the full-scale invasion began.
  — Lynsey Addario Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• Those who were still in active service couldn’t challenge the prime minister’s strategy directly.
  — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
• Caine had to be reinstated to active service and promoted to four-star general to become chair, the Washington Post reports.
  — Tom Bowman, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025
• More than 3 million veterans, active service members and spouses are expected to be impacted by the changes.
  — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
• Known as retrofitting, the process is a pain point for airlines that requires taking aircraft out of active service for days at a time in order to upgrade or replace a satellite communications system.
  — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
• Depending upon their health, these dogs can be in active service for as long as 10 years, in the U.S. at important political events and such, or in combat conditions overseas.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• President Joe Biden ended the policy and thousands of transgender members of the military have provided active service over the past four years.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 6 May 2025
• The royal founded the sporting event to help rehabilitate veterans and active service members who are wounded or sick.
  — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
• Buddy's Pizza Offered all year, veterans and active service members receive 15% off their bill for dine-in at all full-service locations.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
• Now, vehicle is entering active service in North Wales for crisis response work, the company announced.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Production services revenue decreased by 23% due to a lower volume of active service production projects.
  — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
• The broadcast is hosted once again by actors Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise, both longtime champions of veteran causes and advocates for active service members.
  — Scott Huver, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• But legal experts say strategic retirements from active service, based on which party controls the White House instead of other nonpartisan reasons, have grown more common in recent decades.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
• For example, military spouses, who are married to someone in active service, spend more than veterans—$51 billion annually.
  — Lisa Kalkes, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• In some cases, diplomats and intelligence officers left active service due to complications from the condition.
  — Warren P. Strobel, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Arizona last year made its voucher programs – historically targeted to students in low-performing public schools, children with special needs, and children of active service members – open to every student in the state.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023