fighting men
Example Sentences
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Breuer’s focus on fighting men and women is guiding his sweeping remake of the German military.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Striking out across the Hindu Kush mountains accompanied only by his family and two hundred fighting men, he conquered the city of Kabul in Afghanistan.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The book is less a history of the final evacuation than a meditation on the meaning of the end for America’s fighting men and women.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
He told how he thought he'd end up on a street corner "selling pencils"; about how meeting injured troops in Iraq brought back memories; the debt America owes to its fighting men.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2021
We learned a lot from the British—and if they had not been good fighting men we wouldn’t have taken it.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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