GARRISON in a Sentence

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29 example sentences for GARRISON, such as:

1. The soldiers garrisoned the town.
2. The garrison was immediately withdrawn.
3. The government will garrison the coastal towns.
4. In the old days this used to be a garrison town.
5. , being a garrison town, opportunities for corruption abounded.

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garrison
 v.  station (troops) in a fort or garrison
 n.  United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  , being a garrison town, opportunities for corruption abounded.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
2  She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned twelve sous a day.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
3  Gillenormand, on the paternal side, who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic hearth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
4  They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being transferred to Gaillon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
5  It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Theodule belonged came to perform garrison duty in Paris.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
6  The insurrection had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized nearly all the posts of the garrison.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
7  The officer, Theodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the wedding of his cousin Pontmercy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  But the devil does not suffer himself to be easily dispossessed from a place in which he has fixed his garrison.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
9  The Comte de Toiras retired into the citadel St. Martin with his garrison, and threw a hundred men into a little fort called the fort of La Pree.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
10  This time a small troop advanced, consisting of from twenty to twenty-five men; but they were not pioneers, they were soldiers of the garrison.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
11  The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Many of the officers of the garrison, not knowing how long they would be stationed in Atlanta, had sent for their wives and families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  It was easier to forget the impudent black faces in the streets and the blue uniforms of the garrison while they were listening to music.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  She did not hesitate to display arrogance to her new Republican and Scallawag friends but to no class was she ruder or more insolent than the Yankee officers of the garrison and their families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
15  So saying, the veteran again dropped his head to his chest, and returned slowly toward the fort, exhibiting, by the dejection of his air, to the anxious garrison, a harbinger of evil tidings.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  The government will garrison the coastal towns.
2  In the old days this used to be a garrison town.
3  The garrison was immediately withdrawn.
4  The soldiers garrisoned the town.