ARMY in a Sentence

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322 example sentences for ARMY, such as:

1. He left the army and resumed civil life.
2. The army renewed its assault on the capital.
3. Our army was beaten by sheer weight of numbers.
4. The army are helping to clear up after the floods.
5. The refugees are being lodged in an old army camp.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARMY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
army
 n.  a large group of soldiers who fight on land in a war
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He is a captain in the army, damn him, and all day he does nothing but call me 'dear uncle,' and kiss my hand, and express sympathy until I am forced to stop my ears.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
2  Her canaries alone number four hundred, and, in addition, there is an army of pug-dogs, hangers-on, and servants.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  But almost the first words which he uttered showed Murazov that the prisoner had been having dealings with the army of bribe-takers; as also that in those transactions his lawyer had played the principal part.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
5  I have four sons in the army but still I don't fret.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
6  I mean young Nicholas Rostov, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain inactive and has left the university to join the army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
7  I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
8  It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
9  And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the army was very favorable.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
10  On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two quite opposite reputations.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
11  The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
12  The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkov's untimely jest.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
13  Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had joined Kutuzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
14  Russian army, I must say that your victory was not.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
15  Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
16  Our army was beaten by sheer weight of numbers.
17  The army debouched from the mountains into a wide plain.
18  An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.
19  The commander said that the army would comply with the ceasefire.
20  He will retire from the army / his directorship next year.
21  All able-bodied young men were forced to join the army.
22  Our army pounded at the enemy's camp and destroyed it.
23  The refugees are being lodged in an old army camp.
24  In the army camp the quilts are usually folded in this manner.
25  The army renewed its assault on the capital.
26  The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.
27  For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor.
28  The army intends to take the city or simply starve it into submission.
29  He left the army and resumed civil life.
30  The army are helping to clear up after the floods.