How to Use commando in a Sentence

commando

noun

• One friend tells me, with a kind of pride, that she’s gone commando.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• Bin Laden’s wife lunges at a commando and is shot in the leg but not killed.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
• The commandos blow open the front door of the main house as well as a brick wall behind it.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
• At first, elite commando units would come once a week on a resupply run.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
• One teammate was gunned down by an Afghan commando gone rogue.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• Even with three dozen henchmen, the dacoits are no match for the two commandos.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• What’s worse, one of the commandos is a sniper and starts shooting at people.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
• There were two groups of commandos, each with 14 teams of four to six members.
  — Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
• The commando had stood his post to the end, but was now unable to get back to his family.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
• The commandos broke into the airport and saved all but three hostages killed in the crossfire.
  — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• Goes commando in tight leather pants to straddle a phallic gold statue.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2023
• That turns out to be a mistake, since a commando team soon storms his island with orders to kill him on sight.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 28 Jan. 2026
• And that’s where Israeli commandos were able to rescue the hostages.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• One of the youngest children was grabbed by a commando attached to a helicopter by rope.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Score is kept, and levels such as space ace, cosmic commando and galactic hero are achieved.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026
• While forged in wartime, the knowledge needed to create a commando-style sole was not kept top-secret.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
• Nazi spies pose as doctors to frame a shellshocked British commando for murder.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• At one point, Ira and Vika had to crawl, commando-style, along a road to check that the route was safe.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• Male actors have a habit of going commando to costume fittings.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
• Some people believe that going commando at bedtime comes with a range of perks—a few of which might surprise you.
  — Claire Gillespie, SELF, 7 Jan. 2022
• The courses all encompass a number of phases and run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2019
• Get ready to watch people on Facebook play the role of commandos who defuse bombs and kill terrorists.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• Waterproof flashlights clank from each wrist, and a 20-pound weight belt is slung commando-style across my chest.
  — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• The courses have encompassed a number of phases and have run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2019
• Dressed all in black, two commandos wearing ski masks and police armbands entered the prison to look for Faid.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• Watch out for Scorch and other commandos' many appearances as the show advances, too.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2025
• Most of the hostages have been freed in agreements with Hamas, and some were rescued in Israeli commando raids.
  — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
• The idea was for the commandos to do the heavy lifting on the ground with American air and artillery support.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• Al Najar was killed alongside his wife by a squad of Israeli commandos a year later.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2019