How to Use service member in a Sentence

service member

noun
  • Many adopters go to great lengths to honor their service members.
    — Blane Bachelor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • In it, a man plays a piano that a service member later lights on fire.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The service members who need help the most would gain the least from a tax exclusion.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The event is free for active and former service members.
    — Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That brings the death toll of the war in Iran to at least 17 service members killed.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • The death toll remains at 13 service members killed.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • If Joe Biden stays in office, more service members will pay this price.
    — Josephine Rozzelle,rebecca Picciotto,dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • The Army found other service members with the same last names to honor.
    — Kevin Freking, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • Namely, the service members in the closet who may now feel forced to remain there.
    — Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • The quagmire has sucked in hundreds of thousands of service members on both sides.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Our service members are still standing in harm’s way because that evil still exists.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The names, ranks and hometowns of the service members killed are listed below.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The strike also killed two other service members.
    — Jon Gambrell, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Hegseth and Vance both served as low-ranking service members in Iraq at around the same time.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • More than 2 million service members wouldn't get their paycheck.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There, the service members are prepared for their final resting place.
    — Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Trump had earlier warned that Tehran would pay for the deaths of three service members over the past few days.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • The death toll remains at 13 service members killed in combat.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Here’s a guide to some events to remember and honor service members who died for the country.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The other service members who were part of the helicopter crew have been rescued.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 20 July 2026
  • The service members who were killed worked in logistics and kept troops supplied with food and equipment.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Five service members were aboard one of the helicopters, and four were on the other, when the crash happened.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Many command thousands of service members and are stationed across the world in more than a dozen countries and time zones.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • To lose a single service member is just a devastating blow.
    — Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The command did not state what unit or branch of the military the missing service members belong to.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • There are other options that a current living service member can arrange in the case of their death.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Nikoui died that day along with 12 Marines and other service members and scores of civilians.
    — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And service members who entered the military as part of the draft made a unique sacrifice.
    — Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Dirty and unsafe military barracks put our service members at risk.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025

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