How to Use veteran in a Sentence

veteran

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  • He's a 10-year veteran with the team.
  • Even though Foles is an 11-year veteran, he was put in a tough spot.
    — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Harbaugh is one of the top veteran coaches in the league.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Jones Wong speaks like a veteran who has studied the break in and out of the water for much of her life.
    — Talya Minsberg Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The other, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD, sustained a bad gash.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The 17-year veteran played two seasons with the Royals.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Sweeney, who wore a Marine veteran's hat, beseeched the group to take a stand.
    — The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But beyond that, there was a clear purpose for the eight-year veteran to go west.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The 16-year veteran was shot in his thigh and shin and is expected to survive.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Chapek tapped Daniel, a 14-year veteran of the company at the time, to head the division.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
  • It’s been more than a decade since the Cowboys added two veterans of this quality ahead of the draft.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Many of them are our nation’s veterans of two Gulf Wars.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • But North and South, the veterans would put on their old uniforms and parade through the towns and villages.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
  • After two years of war, all the veterans in the unit were exhausted.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The crowd in the video was made up of military and veteran families that were hosted on the South Lawn of the White House.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The veteran starters are often the saving grace for the Bulls, producing over half of the team’s points per game.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Skolimowski, a veteran of the Polish New Wave, is up to no good and reveling at the chance.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Others out on the line were top-tier veterans earning more than $31 an hour.
    — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The veteran linebacker was good again for most of Sunday’s game.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The 10-year veteran has also played for the Vikings, Raiders, Patriots and Bears.
    — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Hesse said the narrative veterans need to be pitied needs to be shifted.
    — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Gil Thorp, the veteran funnies-page high-school coach, is getting new help on the sidelines.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Robby Benson, a Broadway veteran at the time, played the Beast.
    — Jeff Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The veteran bench coach had already seen it all when he was tabbed to take over for Girardi.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Blumenstein, also a veteran of The Wall Street Journal, is the new figure in the mix.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • One of the Americans, a twenty-four-year-old Army veteran named Joshua Jones, was wounded in the thigh.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • A lot of big-name veteran free agents remain on the market if Lynch ignores his safety roots in the draft.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Army veteran Chris Sykes had special permission to hunt on the base, and this was his third year hunting the buck.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Kevin Jiang was a 26-year-old Yale graduate student, an Army veteran, and, his friends say, a man of faith who volunteered with the homeless.
    — Emma Steele, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Clark filed a handwritten response soon after he was notified of the foreclosure lawsuit, laying out his fight with cancer and his history as a veteran and police officer.
    — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025

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