How to Use army in a Sentence

army

noun

• They sent in a whole army of trained technicians.
• He left home and joined the army after he graduated from high school.
• The company employs an army of lawyers to handle its legal affairs.
• The organization was founded by a dedicated army of volunteers.
• The army has yet to clarify the causes of those deaths.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Protests were met with violence; the British army was called in.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The tracksuit is available in 26 colors like brick red and army green and in sizes S–3XL.
  — Monica Bell, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• Fifty percent of the Russian army has been destroyed by the Ukrainians.
  — CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Colors range from army cot green to washed spice orange.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2024
• The army said four of the launchers discovered had rockets inside them and were ready to be fired.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
• His father at the time was an army captain and veteran of World War I.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• And one of the losses is especially painful for the Ukrainian army.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The King’s third and final stop of the day was to Brecon Barracks, which is nome to the regional army command for Wales.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 21 July 2023
• Adar will serve in the army, as is required of nearly all Jewish Israelis.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Manuel Saavedra, an 80-year-old army veteran, lifts his shirt to show a scar.
  — Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
• Even though many in the West assumed Putin’s army would quickly topple Kyiv, the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nearly a year and a half.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 July 2023
• About five minutes into the video, the uniformed men line the others up against the fence, as the army vehicle retreats.
  — Alfredo Meza, CNN, 7 June 2023
• As the season wears on, these seeds begin to shrivel, turning to a pale army green color.
  — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 9 Mar. 2024
• Mark Kelly America is stuck—deadlocked, frozen, like the armies on the Western Front in 1917.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• The Israeli army said 30 Israeli troops have been killed since the ground offensive began over a week ago.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023
• As Paul builds trust among the Fremen army, his mother plants rumors among the people in the caves that her son is the Messiah.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• The national army closed the mine and burned the nearby villages after a lethal tunnel collapse in 2004.
  — Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• The villagers had gathered in the night when an aircraft from the Nigerian army began to hover above.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Once there, Carly meets Matthew (Carmack), a man back in town after serving in the army.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Vietnamese army had pushed what remained of the Khmer Rouge westward into the forests near Thailand, where there was still heavy fighting.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• In this large-scale set piece, the French army fires cannons at Russian soldiers on a field of ice, and the explosions plunge them into the water.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
• Silent but for the gentle drum of wheels, the train swept past forests blanketed white like an army of ghosts, their branches drooping under the weight of snow.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2023
• Parcels dropped by air, meanwhile, end up in border areas near the Israeli army or in the sea, or lead to people fighting over them.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• The outnumbered British now used it to thwart the Axis powers’ ability to delay the advance of the Allied armies.
  — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
• He was arrested weeks ago for throwing stones at the Israeli army, Rania said.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024