rifleman

Example Sentences

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In the future, Breuer predicts, “Every rifleman will need to be a drone pilot.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The intelligence service reported that the soldier carrying the ID card said he was born in 2005 and had been serving North Korea as a rifleman since 2021.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

He came overland from New Mexico with a wagon train expedition called the Rowland Workman party; he was a tailor and a rifleman, both handy skills in the new frontier.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Cancel joined the Marine Corps in 2017 as an infantry rifleman, said Maj.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022

Neumann Two closes an eye and cocks his head like a rifleman aiming into the darkness where the train has receded.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr