How to Use troop in a Sentence

troop

1 of 2 noun
  • Where is his troop heading?
  • How many troops will that take?
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Six troops have been killed so far.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats are worried that our troops eat too well.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Enter your zip code to find a troop selling near you.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Our troops are in danger because of this.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • It is not known when the president could send in the troops.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Our troops were soon seen as occupiers.
    — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The troop movement could take as much as two weeks to get a force into place.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • There are armed troops on the streets in America.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Most troops are composed of a single male and a group of females.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Kazakhstan also does not want to send troops to Ukraine.
    — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • Russian troops have been fighting in Ukraine for well over four years.
    — Guy Faulconbridge, USA Today, 10 May 2026
  • But Russian troops have been stuck, unable to push ahead.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • In many cases, these troops are balancing two or even three jobs.
    — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Israel said its troops fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a common refrain that the troops are being used as pawns.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • All command and control of the troops has collapsed.
    — Katharina Krebs, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The navy's coastal defense troops are always ready for battle.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Tanks and troops were leaving Moscow.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Their troop continued through high school and remains tight knit.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 June 2026
  • People can get something and support our troops.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The United States has already ruled out troops.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • So far, Ruto has not confirmed if or when his troops are leaving.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Why is Trump sending troops to Chicago?
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • An unknown number of troops from Chad have so far been deployed.
    — ABC News, 11 May 2026
  • Prayers for our troops and for Iranians to rise up and claim their freedom.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The country sent thousands of troops to serve in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Journalists do not pose a threat to Israeli troops.
    — Deepti Hajela, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Cookies sold by some troops will cost as much as $6 a box, up from $5 per package last year.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023

troop

2 of 2 verb
  • The kids trooped off to school.
  • We all trooped back inside.
  • Performers trooped up and down from the basement between scenes.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Not to be torn down by Mike Brown’s storm-trooping security dudes.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Dignitaries and members of the public trooped to a microphone to welcome the board, and to warn it of the work ahead.
    — Philly.com, 9 July 2018
  • For many older adults, that means a steady parade of home health aides trooping through the door, some more mindful of hygiene than others.
    — Katie Hafner, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Lawmakers and state officials should not troop to the White House for photo ops.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • At one point, though, the students in his class on Friday morning who were at the game trooped down the first base line to greet their teacher.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2018
  • The models trooped out in Céline’s sleeveless tees, now in silk with a twist in front, and soft trousers flopping over furry slides.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 22 Dec. 2017
  • At some point Kia board members must have trooped down to the design center in Namyang for a formal signoff.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • And, air tanks on their backs, red protective boots on their feet and faces masked, hazmat specialists trooped into the building.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The pilots trooped into the executive dining room to discuss the news.
    — Emily Ludolph, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • Before not too long, patients began trooping in from hundreds of kilometers away just to be seen at this center.
    — Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Amid the uproar, the Obama team trooped into a gloomy Oval Office to ponder its next move.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Their mythical enemy defeated, the warriors take their bows and troop off stage, to be replaced by a lone singer less than 3 ft.
    — Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, 1 June 2018
  • As Brazil trooped off at the end, Uruguay’s giddy heroes hugged referee Reader.
    — SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Eventually, the elephants finished munching leaves and trooped to a gushing river nearby.
    — Amy Yee, New York Times, 4 July 2016
  • Daub spent his days trying to orchestrate how cohorts of children could troop through the building without encountering others.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • And so, the kids trooped around Capitol Hill on Monday and Tuesday, meeting with top leaders in both parties.
    — Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • As the campers trooped to the ropes course, 10-year-old Emma Brackins told a counselor that the scariest part of the course wasn’t the zip line, like some kids said.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Crowd control is exercised with firm-handed finesse, as pirates troop in and out while maidens waft about like Wagnerian swans.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The investors trooped across the tarmac into the airport, carrying suitcases and wrapped in trench coats, wearing looks of grim determination.
    — Yepoka Yeebo, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Barely a year after Morocco announced plans to put up a gigafactory, investors have started trooping to the market.
    — By Conrad Onyango, Quartz, 1 June 2023
  • Different tasks are assigned to us, nothing at all taxing or anxiety-inducing, just a little bit of choral reading, scenic assistance and trooping about.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the larger accounts call in orders, but not many individuals are trooping from Downtown Brooklyn for a pen or roll of Scotch tape.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
  • At the annual parade in central London on June 2, the 1st battalion of the Irish Guards will troop their color.
    — PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
  • The color, or regimental flag, which was trooped in the ceremony belongs to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2023
  • The supply of houses for sale has been limited, partly because many Americans are reluctant to put their properties on the market and allow would-be buyers to troop through their homes.
    — Paul Wiseman, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Kate Middleton looking angry and the kids looking completely uncomfortable and confused, getting booed during trooping the colour.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 20 June 2026

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