How to Use troop in a Sentence

troop

1 of 2 noun

• Where is his troop heading?
• The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• The French Armed Forces said 1,500 French troops are deployed in the country.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• Israeli troops on the ground inside the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Hamas has been pressing for an end to the war and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• But in recent months, as U.S. aid has faltered, the troops have been forced to ration those shells.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• Israel said its troops fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• French troops had largely pulled out of the C.A.R. two years earlier.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Ukraine's brave troops continue to make steady progress.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2023
• Cookies sold by some troops will cost as much as $6 a box, up from $5 per package last year.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Glenn-Pyle and her troop stayed in the area and waited for about an hour until a game warden arrived.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Mexican troops spared only a 16-year-old boy who was with Crabb's group.
  — The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
• Recently, a troop of Boy Scouts clearing brush there found a human skull and teeth.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• In response, our troops fired towards the spotters and hits were identified.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• One clutch of three assault groups, each presumably with at least a dozen troops, got wiped out; just three men survived.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Since then, Israel has withdrawn many troops from northern Gaza and has shifted the focus of its invasion to the south.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• The incident was the first in the region to cost the lives of American troops since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its ensuing conflict.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• That’s the beginning of a five-star review left by an assistant scoutmaster, who logs lots of miles on the trails with their troop.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2023
• Then there are the toxic traces of military conflicts, which linger long after the fighting has stopped and troops have returned home.
  — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
• Israeli troops and tanks are expected to remain in place around northern Gaza during the truce.
  — Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
• As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Belarusian troops – at the Kremlin’s behest – have built up on Poland’s border.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• Then there is the simple fact that Schumer has had more difficulty corralling his troops than McCarthy has.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
• Being older Girl Scouts, her troop has also found other ways to earn money.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024
• Crowds lined the streets in the rain to take in the rare display of military hardware up close, cheering as troops, tanks, missiles and underwater drones passed by.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• When the war ended, Bennett stayed in Germany as an entertainer, singing for troops.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
• The Biden administration has so far refused to call the power grab a coup, because that would force it to remove the 1,100 U.S. troops stationed in the country and cut off aid.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Around 50 scouts who have left the shelter participate in a virtual troop.
  — Sara Herschander, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024
• Across the border, the platform has become a lifeline for Ukrainians trying to keep safe from Russia’s attacks and track troop movements.
  — Masha Borak, The Verge, 7 July 2023
• The Ukrainian troops, Oleksiy added, were unable to suppress the Russian firepower.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023

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troop

2 of 2 verb

• The kids trooped off to school.
• We all trooped back inside.
• My family trooped back in and gathered on the ground floor.
  — Maram Humaid, Harper's Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• Dignitaries and members of the public trooped to a microphone to welcome the board, and to warn it of the work ahead.
  — Philly.com, 9 July 2018
• As the campers trooped to the ropes course, 10-year-old Emma Brackins told a counselor that the scariest part of the course wasn’t the zip line, like some kids said.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2023
• And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• At one point, though, the students in his class on Friday morning who were at the game trooped down the first base line to greet their teacher.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2018
• Performers trooped up and down from the basement between scenes.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• At some point Kia board members must have trooped down to the design center in Namyang for a formal signoff.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• The models trooped out in Céline’s sleeveless tees, now in silk with a twist in front, and soft trousers flopping over furry slides.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 22 Dec. 2017
• The head coach and some parents trooped to the cave around 9 p.m. and saw the boys’ bicycles outside, then alerted officials.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Lawmakers and state officials should not troop to the White House for photo ops.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• Not to be torn down by Mike Brown’s storm-trooping security dudes.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The pilots trooped into the executive dining room to discuss the news.
  — Emily Ludolph, New York Times, 16 July 2019
• And so, the kids trooped around Capitol Hill on Monday and Tuesday, meeting with top leaders in both parties.
  — Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• For many older adults, that means a steady parade of home health aides trooping through the door, some more mindful of hygiene than others.
  — Katie Hafner, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• At the annual parade in central London on June 2, the 1st battalion of the Irish Guards will troop their color.
  — PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
• As Brazil trooped off at the end, Uruguay’s giddy heroes hugged referee Reader.
  — SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• And, air tanks on their backs, red protective boots on their feet and faces masked, hazmat specialists trooped into the building.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Their mythical enemy defeated, the warriors take their bows and troop off stage, to be replaced by a lone singer less than 3 ft.
  — Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, 1 June 2018
• When docked, the guests troop up stone staircases to sun-dappled courtyards built on cliffs for outdoor dinners with breathtaking views.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• Before not too long, patients began trooping in from hundreds of kilometers away just to be seen at this center.
  — Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 9 Aug. 2023
• The color, or regimental flag, which was trooped in the ceremony belongs to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2023
• Some of the larger accounts call in orders, but not many individuals are trooping from Downtown Brooklyn for a pen or roll of Scotch tape.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• The annual Trooping of the Colour, which is the queen’s birthday parade, features military units waving their flags (colours) while marching (trooping) in London.
  — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 June 2019
• Ila Rallan used to have five different home assistants troop through her apartment in Mumbai every day: one cook, three cleaners and one nanny.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
• The investors trooped across the tarmac into the airport, carrying suitcases and wrapped in trench coats, wearing looks of grim determination.
  — Yepoka Yeebo, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, the elephants finished munching leaves and trooped to a gushing river nearby.
  — Amy Yee, New York Times, 4 July 2016

Last Updated: 3 May 2024