How to Use basic training in a Sentence

basic training

noun

• Our son is in basic training.
• The person has signed a contract but not yet started basic training.
  — NBC News, 27 Feb. 2018
• The good-news story is that applicants are shipping to basic training tomorrow.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2018
• George graduated in 1966, finished basic training in the reserves and mustered out of the Army.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Few who enter those portals ever forget those initial few hours or the drill instructors who turn them into Marines during 13 weeks of basic training.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• After completing basic training at Camp Lejeune, Rambow went to cooking school.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
• Some advocates would like to see the Marine Corps move even faster, pointing out that the other services have fully integrated basic training.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2018
• Rights groups blame the problem on a lack of basic training on LGBTi rights for those making decisions about asylum claims and interpreters.
  — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2018
• Last year, Sampa went back to Fort Knox for a senior leadership conference and visited his old basic training barracks.
  — Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile, my grandfather, Sam, was drafted in 1941 and sent to Alabama for basic training.
  — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
• Even with two away at basic training, and Adolf Hitler’s conquest of Europe well underway, war still seemed a remote possibility.
  — Jessica Stahl, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
• The cast and crew filmed the basic training scenes at Fort Knox.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2021
• The guards must go through basic training with the Swiss Armed Forces.
  — al, 9 Aug. 2019
• These are folks that are about to go to basic training.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2018
• The first thing he was told in basic training was not to get captured.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• Tirado made it through weeks of basic training for the Air Force.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• Have the rhythms of basic training stayed the same over the years, or is that just how they’re depicted on screen?
  — Vulture, 21 Nov. 2022
• The Air Force opened a second basic training site in Biloxi.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 3 June 2020
• In the fifth week of eight weeks of basic training, on a day off for the Fourth of July, Tom played in a softball game.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 16 June 2019
• Those recruits will go to basic training over the next year.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• The decision to add Keesler to the mix of basic training was historic.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Up until 1955, there were Army ranges used for basic training at the site.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• The basic training runs for a month, and takes place multiple times over the summer.
  — Thomas Prior, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2022
• The two reverends met in 2012 on the first day of the Army’s basic training, and after three weeks of knowing each other jumped the broom.
  — Joi-Marie McKenzie, Essence, 29 Oct. 2019
• In the spring of 2004, Snowden joined the Army reserves but, five months later, washed out of basic training.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• The death of his beloved mother, Gladys, midway through basic training camp was a huge blow.
  — Jonathan Gold, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2018
• The goal of basic training is not just upskilling but readiness.
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
• That would have meant fall 2019, and re-starting basic training.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Dana Taylor: And teachers who carry must complete 40 hours of basic training in school policing.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
• Cass is not alone in this misunderstanding; most economists share it as a matter of their most basic training.
  — James K. Galbraith, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024