How to Use legionnaire in a Sentence

legionnaire

noun

• The Roman legionnaires tied bands of cloth around their necks.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• The legionnaires took much better care of me than of themselves.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• Legionnaires' is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that thrive in warm water and infect the lungs.
  — CBS News, 14 June 2017
• The legionnaires rent their parking lot during events at the Hollywood Bowl.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• From Roman legionnaires to Napoleon’s troops, many armies have occupied Aragonese over the years.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
• The switch is also suspected in outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease linked to 12 Flint-area deaths.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
• An immaculate woman coming of age in a sinful world, fleeing her home with her husband and her baby, shielding the child from brutal legionnaires and a jealous king.
  — Luke Dittrich, Esquire, 25 July 2014
• Such was the case for innumerable female veterans denied full legionnaire status and shuffled to auxiliary posts.
  — Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
• That same year, 35-year-old legionnaire Linsday Church was elected commander of her Seattle post.
  — Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Hudson noticed Howard’s camouflage legionnaire pants and struck up a conversation.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Visitors will see the gladius of a Roman legionnaire, the style of sword used by the soldiers that eventually gave its name to the gladiators who fought for sport.
  — Andrew Alexander, ajc, 4 Oct. 2017
• Given their lineage as an expeditionary force, legionnaires are often among the first French troops sent into a dangerous environment.
  — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
• Preliminary test results indicate that traces of the bacteria causing Legionnaires' were found at the police station in East Harlem.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• In the early 1980s health officials were declaring an epidemic of an illness that claimed more victims than toxic shock and legionnaire's disease combined, but which was a mystery to most of the country.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2020
• Guests were summoned to the ball with an invitation emblazoned with the krewe logo of a roman legionnaire and Primus V, the krewe's King, who made a grand entrance to the ball to greet his subjects and await his court.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• The French Foreign Legion sidesteps this by requiring that legionnaires swear allegiance to the Legion itself – not to the country of France.
  — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
• Resistance, however, has melted away before the undisputed recruiting success of the post-9/11 legionnaires.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• The legionnaires’ loyalty was largely to one another, but France fashioned the recruits into an effective force available for tough situations, especially in the French colonies.
  — Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• Babies born during water births are at risk of contracting Legionnaires' disease, a severe and potentially life-threatening form of pneumonia that infected two infants in Arizona last year.
  — Lena H. Sun, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2017
• But legionnaires ultimately decided to give it to the Veterans Museum, where it is displayed with other Civil War artifacts.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2017
• He is accused of involuntary manslaughter by deliberately failing to warn the public about a fatal outbreak of legionnaires disease, which the prosecution says was directly connected to the water crisis.
  — Dean Reynolds, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2017
• Legionnaires' is a potentially fatal type of pneumonia or lung infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Ron Fonger, OregonLive.com, 14 June 2017
• Legionnaires' disease spreads when people breathe small droplets of water infected with legionella bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 10 June 2017
• Since its formation, legionnaires born in more than 140 countries have fought under the French flag in a variety of conflicts throughout Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.
  — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
• At the Crimea pavilion, throngs of visitors pose with men dressed as Roman legionnaires next to a video boasting about the bridge connecting the peninsula, which was illegally annexed in 2014, to the Russian mainland.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• One 2016 study showed that, following hotels, long-term care facilities and hospitals are the most common types of buildings associated with Legionnaires' disease outbreaks that CDC investigates.
  — Dr. Anne Schuchat, CNN, 6 June 2017