comrade

Example Sentences

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“A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen,” wrote William Soutar, a Scottish poet and diarist, in 1934.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

He was legendary for his weapons skills, a former comrade once told AFP, but had little power.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Asked what Mounfield meant to him, the singer said: "Everything. He's a brother to me, a musical comrade... a beautiful soul and spirit."

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Army, my leadership drilled a lot of different ideas into my head, from never leaving my post to “keeping my head on a swivel” to never leaving a fallen comrade behind.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2025

“But Rome was not built in a day. Keep it in mind, comrade, that this is not your Oxford college. For you what is a nonsense for Masses it is something different.”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy