cantonment
Example Sentences
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A few walked alone, their faces frozen in shock, as helicopters landed every few minutes on a football field inside the town's military cantonment, whipping up clouds of dust.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
The base lost contact with it around 20 minutes later, just before it was due to land in the cantonment town of Wellington.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021
Through their research, the cousins determined Armstrong’s original burial site in 1941 was in the British cantonment area of St. Luke’s Anglican Church Cemetery in Toungoo, Burma.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2017
I remember their being both brought into cantonment, as well as if it were yesterday.
From The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
