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
For decades, the Indian elite have sought escape in Raj-era private clubs and gymkhanas, scattered around the swankiest neighbourhoods in the country's big cities, hillside resorts and cantonment towns.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
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
A promise came over from Berlin, through the medium of a neutral nation, to look for the young man in every prison cantonment.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
