How to Use cavalryman in a Sentence

cavalryman

noun
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  • The park used to bear the name of Forrest and feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has been changed and the statue removed in recent years.
    — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • The park used to bear the name of the early Ku Klux Klan leader, and feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has been changed and the statue removed in recent years.
    — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • On the first day, the cowboy fell 22 miles behind the cavalryman, having run into street traffic.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Archers, for example, would have held crossbows, while cavalrymen would have been made with one hand holding a horse’s reins, leaving the other free to hold a spear.
    — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The cavalryman would go on to become a distinguished commander during World War II.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Perhaps more important, the Sioux and Cheyenne had not swarmed over a last knot of defenders on horseback but had dismounted into the grass to riddle the cavalrymen with arrows before moving in to finish them off.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The terra-cotta cavalryman statue Rohana targeted was valued at $4.5 million, the FBI said.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
  • On the terrace, landscape architect Miranda Brooks has created a charming rooftop garden filled with native plants, presided over in iconic Hermès fashion by a cast-iron cavalryman.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The cavalryman had been designated as a national treasure, said Rong Bo, an artifact conservation expert who visited the Franklin Institute to assess the damage.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • From Alabama came Confederate cavalryman Joseph Wheeler in 1925.
    — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The terra-cotta cavalryman and his thumb were returned to China, where experts had begun planning its restoration, Rong testified in 2019.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023

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