foot soldier
Example Sentences
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Kudryashev said a commander dispatched him and another foot soldier with the goal of reaching a point in a forest near Kreminna in eastern Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
"He was an enthusiastic foot soldier in that conspiracy," Erik Kenerson, a prosecutor, told the judge on Friday.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023
Bao Ninh wrote perhaps the saddest, most agonizing account of the Vietnam War, in which he narrowly survived as a North Vietnamese foot soldier, in “The Sorrow of War.”
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022
A Mexican immigrant is a foot soldier in the drive by nonprofits and healthcare providers to close the Latino COVID-19 vaccination gap in Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
The goal of a foot soldier was to someday become an officer.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
