Example Sentences

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Evins’s father was a Marine at Pearl Harbor when Japan bombed it, so it was expected of him to join the USMC.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2018

In 20 years as a USMC, Pentagon and DHS spokesman, I dealt w/ the news media nearly every day.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2018

Today, some 200,000 men and women serve in the USMC.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

From the start we are sealed within the acronym-intensive argot and worldview of the USMC.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

Beecher, USMC, our commanding officer, and a Japanese guard wandered through our ranks-trying to get a head count.

From Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book by Rohlfing, Sam