dead soldier

Example Sentences

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Jibo is a bit of a dead soldier whose commanding officers went out of business.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2023

"History will certainly preserve the names of those who tried to keep silent about the trouble, and those who tried to blame the dead soldier for everything," he wrote on Telegram.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023

One is titled “On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492”; others are about a dead soldier, a basketball player surrounded by disadvantages, a man imprisoned.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Chad Workman reportedly received a medal from Biden after attempting to retrieve a dead soldier from a burning vehicle.

From Fox News • Aug. 29, 2019

Dr. Bagby was sent with the dead soldier to Richmond and soon afterward was discharged because of ill health, "and thus ended the record of an unrenowned warrior."

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell