SOLDIERS in a Sentence

Learn SOLDIERS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

393 example sentences for SOLDIERS, such as:

1. It was the state of the soldiers' boots.
2. The soldiers concerned were unarmed at the time.
3. The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks.
4. The soldiers' voices could be heard on every side.
5. The soldiers foraged the villages near their camp.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLDIERS
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  Likewise, as the effect of last night's doings, a whole squadron of soldiers seemed to be camping on my chest, and giving me a flogging.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Among the latter was a long engraving of a battle scene, wherein soldiers in three-cornered hats were brandishing huge drums and slender lances.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Tchinovniks were retired wholesale, and the houses were sequestrated to the Government, or else converted into various pious institutions and schools for soldiers' children.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  Some sledge-drivers standing by were talking about her to some soldiers and telling them so.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
5  The soldiers rushed out of the guard-house and saluted.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  He has taken the bread out of our mouths by quartering soldiers on us, so that you might as well put your neck in a noose.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  It was the state of the soldiers' boots.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
8  The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the soldiers to change into their greatcoats.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
9  Kutuzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  "A cup of vodka for the men from me," he added so that the soldiers could hear.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
11  The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the soldiers.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
12  The soldiers' voices could be heard on every side.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
13  The soldiers, swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long steps.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
14  Each time Prince Nesvitski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  But the convoyman took no notice of the word "general" and shouted at the soldiers who were blocking his way.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  Knight was the top title for field soldiers during the Middle Ages.
17  The soldiers were disaffected toward the government.
18  The soldiers were building a bridge as a training exercise.
19  The soldiers showed perfect discipline under the fire of the enemy.
20  She avenged her mother's death upon the Nazi soldiers.
21  In the Great War soldiers were considered expendable.
22  The band of soldiers marched into the yard, their defeated captain at their head.
23  Children were held in captivity until British soldiers entered the village.
24  Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.
25  The soldiers lay down their guns and walked towards the enemy camp, carrying a white flag.
26  The soldiers foraged the villages near their camp.
27  The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
28  All the trucks were coopted to carry the wounded soldiers.
29  The soldiers concerned were unarmed at the time.
30  The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks.