SOLDIER in a Sentence

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Perhaps it's still true, provided the Confederate soldier has bullets for his gun and shoes on his feet and food in his stomach.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLDIER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
soldier
 n.  a person who serves in an army
 n.  a person of military skill or experience
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  She was tired from standing on her feet all morning and irritable because Mrs. Merriwether had scolded her sharply for sitting on a soldier's bed while she dressed his wounded arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  I am not a soldier and I have no desire to seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Everyone knew there had never been a cowardly Confederate soldier and they found this statement peculiarly irritating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Mrs. Meade's eyes grew wet as she pictured her soldier son home at last, home to stay.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Well, she'd make up some pitiful story about a soldier in the hospital who needed it and Rhett need never know the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  She rose as he entered, thinking with proprietary pride that he was the handsomest soldier she had ever seen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Perhaps it's still true, provided the Confederate soldier has bullets for his gun and shoes on his feet and food in his stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  And a good soldier for all his years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  But she discovered she could not look for him, for if she did not step carefully she would tread on some poor soldier.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  She caught a fleeting glimpse of a head of red curls and saw that creature, Belle Watling, heard her shrill drunken laughter as she clung for support to a one-armed soldier who reeled and staggered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  She saw again the Yankee soldier standing in the hall with Ellen's sewing box in his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  And the money in the Yankee soldier's wallet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  She laughed and joked and almost but not quite coquetted with a one-eyed soldier who gladly repaid her efforts with extravagant gallantries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  "He killed some--but not with bullets," said the one-eyed soldier grimly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  The hospital will fit any wounded soldier for a false leg.
17  The soldier was reported to his superior officer for failing in his duties.
18  The wounded soldier lashed around in great pain.
19  I didn't realize he was a soldier because he was in civvies.
20  He was killed by a single shot from an unseen soldier.
21  A bullet lamed the soldier for life.
22  After his death, the soldier was cited for spunk.
23  The soldier carried a pack on his back.
24  A soldier has to confront danger.
25  He wants to be a soldier when he grows up.
26  In his youth he was a soldier.
27  The soldier impacted his sword into the ground.
28  It is a bounden duty for a soldier to be subjected to the orders.
29  The soldier dedicated himself to the service of the people.
30  A moan escaped the badly wounded soldier.