How to Use battalion in a Sentence
battalion
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The last vestiges of Hamas’ battalions are in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
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The stormers in their fifties were no longer with the battalion.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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The restoration of an aide to assist each battalion chief at the scene of a fire.
—Monica Eng, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
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In a statement, Moran and Rosen praised the signing of the bill and the battalion's war efforts.
—Eric Levenson, Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
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They were then both flown to the hospital, the battalion chief said.
—CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
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LaCroix, the battalion chief, said crews have been trucking water to the scene, which is about a mile into the woods.
—Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
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And all of us knew this battalion had not been scheduled to land until late that day.
—The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
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Poised near the door is a battalion of black velvet ropes on their gold stanchions.
—Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
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One of his friends, a battalion chief in New York, had told him to bring his firefighting gear.
—Michael Williams, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
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The new battalion was formed as a product of the military reforms in May 2022.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
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The frigate battalion fought around Kharkiv in northern Ukraine before shifting to the Pokrovsk axis in the east.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
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Malcolm's arrival on the scene with a battalion of NOI members changed minds and hearts in Harlem.
—Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
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Pavliuk, who was a battalion commander eight years ago when war broke out, takes the long view.
—Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
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As the sun begins to crest, the sliver of light offers a glimpse of a battalion of bats coming in for landing.
—Melissa Locker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
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The Wine Estate just outside Cape Town, a battalion of some 1,600 marching ducks is used to keep the vineyard free of pests.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 23 July 2022
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Waiting to reapply, Rauch spent three years in the Army, in an infantry battalion.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
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The next day, Zinkevych resolved to create her own battalion.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
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The convoy reached Larry, Moe and the tank battalions in the palace area, ensuring that Perkins and his force could remain in place.
—William Branigin, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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Abbey Gate was scheduled to be closed that evening, and the Marines of Suthpen's battalion were supposed to return to the airport and board planes for the flight out.
—CBS News, 15 Sep. 2021
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His friend was later wounded and referred him to the Achilles battalion.
—C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Forty-nine former Australian tanks would be enough to bring the brigade’s current tank battalion back up to full strength.
—David Axe, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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Whistler joined the Welsh Guard in 1939, rejecting the chance to serve as a war artist in favor of commanding a tank battalion.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
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Some are wounded and the battalion doctor is treating the injured.
—Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
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Each battalion in the New Zealand Army has its own haka, with its own words that the soldiers hiss and bellow.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
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David Wright, a battalion commander at the sniper school.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
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Washington then read the script and signed on to play the role of Captain Charity Adams, the commander of the 6888 battalion.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
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The first set of 10 tanks will be followed by another 21—enough to arm a Ukrainian tank battalion.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
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The men worked in a labor battalion, clearing airfields and moving tons of earth.
—Matthew F. Delmont, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
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More often than not, the joy of Musou games comes not from its complexity or difficulty, but the dopamine hit of clearing out entire battalions at a clip.
—Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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Its battalions have been smashed; all that is left is a ragtag insurgency capable only of hit-and-run tactics.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
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