How to Use soldier in a Sentence

soldier

1 of 2 noun
  • Many soldiers were wounded in combat.
  • Charmed, the soldiers left her alone.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Lebanon's army said four soldiers were among those killed.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That’s three plums lined up like weary soldiers at reveille by my count.
    — David Weiss, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The soldier who hit me was an older man.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Two soldiers were injured as well as the two killed.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her son, a soldier, was killed in action last year.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Male and female soldiers can shave their heads.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The soldiers were locked inside; some slept on cots in prison gyms.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Male soldiers are not allowed locs, braids or twists.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Michael then tries talking to the soldiers.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • Children and soldiers have lost their lives.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
  • From these outposts, the soldiers are able to launch their own drones.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • War is when soldiers fight soldiers.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The movie ends on a tableau of soldiers at the climax of a battle scene.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • During the hike, one of the soldiers fell into the ocean.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Most of their mothers worked in bars catering to the soldiers.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Babies may soon join soldiers in the fight to ward off malaria.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The spokesman did not say where the Pakistani soldier was killed.
    — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The soldier pleaded not guilty.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The soldiers though are staying.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026
  • Both raids took place on Thursday, and no soldiers were killed.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Israel said four of its soldiers were also killed.
    — Justina Lee,sam Meredith, CNBC, 19 June 2026
  • Israeli soldiers set up a checkpoint near his house.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That fire has killed four people -- two civilians and two soldiers.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The soldiers were not always kind in return.
    — Craig Fehrman, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Among the dead are 13 US soldiers.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Rock soldiers will have to wait a while to see Ace Frehley back on stage.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Every soldier would see farther, know more, and act faster.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Four Israeli soldiers have been killed.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2026

soldier

2 of 2 verb
  • In an era of remote work, the need to soldier on has prevailed.
    — Megan Carnegie, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Venus soldiered through her first match but without her usual mirth.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • And kids learn to soldier into the world with what a cynic might describe as naiveté.
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Gege asked in the car on the way to school, which stayed open thanks to teachers who soldiered on in dim, chilly classrooms.
    — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the rest of the Band soldiered on without a lead guitarist.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Dion soldiered through, still taking in each gown while dotting her eyes with a handkerchief.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2019
  • These 5 resilience-building habits seemed to help couples soldier on.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 July 2021
  • Even when his guitar amp went out in the middle of the set, Mohr and the band soldiered on unfazed.
    — Jason Keil, azcentral, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Pittman left the restaurant in mid-2019 and the restaurant soldiered on.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Others will soldier on, not least the alpha who ended up a domestique.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Today, the show soldiered on with its press day in Beverly Hills.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2020
  • There was something about soldiering, though, that fired his imagination and moved him to quit the bank.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2018
  • Despite all of that, Lauvergne has soldiered on and even got his first start Thursday night.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2017
  • With Mr Joyce out, at least until the by-election, the coalition could just soldier on.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Admiration for the docs and nurses and parents who soldier through an ordeal that seems to have no end in sight.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Still, Zuckerberg soldiered on, making his point, which happens to be largely true.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 26 June 2019
  • The cost to cave was measured against the certainty that the company would soldier on with a chance at greatness.
    — Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • So Slaton soldiered on, and turned to DNA to refine the search.
    — Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Unfortunately, that is not the case, and the Cavs must soldier on without him.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The driver, a man who soldiers said behaved in a friendly manner, made a phone call to someone in the capital.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The prospect of Mueller soldiering on through a shutdown might be a mixed blessing for the White House.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Opportunity has soldiered on for years since then, but was caught up in a global dust storm on Mars this summer.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2018
  • My sister soldiered forth with another needlepoint, in the new colors, with a bushy yet barren wisteria in the front.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • Utah’s high school football playoffs will soldier on — a total of 11 games involving 16 teams.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • My father, of prime age for soldiering in WWII, never wore a uniform.
    — Fred Niedner, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2019
  • And this, dear Nashville fans who are still soldiering on till this thing ends or Teddy gets out of prison, is where Darius comes in.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 1 Feb. 2018
  • But eventually, as guests wound up atop tables and chairs to show off their dance moves, their shoes were left aside—but Tiffany Haddish soldiered on.
    — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2018
  • Eflin and Arrieta could soldier on the rest of the year, and Drew Smyly could prove to be a solid free-agent addition.
    — Mitchell Gladstone, SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • There was no treatment, I was told, and left to soldier on as if nothing was happening, for fear I’d be accused of being slovenly yet again.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 11 June 2022
  • Neto warmed up, but the number 1 was able to recover and soldier on to half time with Barca cushioning a 2-1 lead.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021

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