How to Use D-Day in a Sentence

D-Day

noun

• Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Cécile Dumont, 92, is one of the few D-Day witnesses still alive.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Gliders played a key role in the early hours of the war’s largest airborne assaults, including D-Day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• This group helped make the Allied landings on D-Day possible.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• While the clock struck midnight to start the new year of 1944, two clandestine operators crept across the darkened shores of key Normandy beaches, the beaches that would be the targets for D-Day.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• Weather forecasting turned out to be an essential part of the Allies’ most famous gambit of the war — D-Day, the invasion aimed at gaining a foothold on the European mainland.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Early June was picked for D-Day because of lower-than-normal tides and a moon cycle that provided darkness during the early stages of the invasion and, on a clear night, a moon glow after rising later on.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• This April, Suga officially released his debut solo album, D-Day.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• He was documented experiencing writer's block, discussing those struggles with fellow musicians and looking back on traumatic memories to provide writing material for D-Day.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• He'll be documented experiencing writer's block, discussing such hurdles with fellow musicians and looking back on traumatic memories to provide writing material for D-Day.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024