How to Use commando in a Sentence

commando

noun

• Life as a commando is tough---especially when you get stuck with your back up against a wall.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2012
• The girls were rapt, cheering for the boxers and breaking into applause when the commandos, in hijab and body armor, practiced firing a rocket launcher.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2016
• One friend tells me, with a kind of pride, that she’s gone commando.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• At one point, Ira and Vika had to crawl, commando-style, along a road to check that the route was safe.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• Even with three dozen henchmen, the dacoits are no match for the two commandos.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• The commando had stood his post to the end, but was now unable to get back to his family.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
• And that’s where Israeli commandos were able to rescue the hostages.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• The idea was for the commandos to do the heavy lifting on the ground with American air and artillery support.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• In the days before Sadeq was scheduled to arrive, the U.S. forces at the base worked with Afghan commandos to draw up a minute-by-minute plan.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• By dusk that day, the work of the Afghan commandos and their American Special Forces partners was over.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2020
• At first, elite commando units would come once a week on a resupply run.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2021
• One teammate was gunned down by an Afghan commando gone rogue.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• One of the youngest children was grabbed by a commando attached to a helicopter by rope.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023
• But don’t go commando hoping that will solve the issue.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 3 Oct. 2022
• For the first commando raid, Borghese had bought a flotilla of jet skis to transport 20 men to a Russian base on Cape Tarkhankut.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• Two French commandos killed during the mission were given solemn services in the heart of Paris.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• The courses all encompass a number of phases and run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2019
• At the height of the crisis, more than a dozen SWAT commandos were seen entering the mall, their assault rifles ready.
  — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2020
• The courses have encompassed a number of phases and have run from about nine weeks to a year or two for the most elite commando jobs.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2019
• Get ready to watch people on Facebook play the role of commandos who defuse bombs and kill terrorists.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018
• Dressed all in black, two commandos wearing ski masks and police armbands entered the prison to look for Faid.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• While forged in wartime, the knowledge needed to create a commando-style sole was not kept top-secret.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
• Israeli commandos rescued her and the others from civilian homes in the midst of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
• That figure was cut in half after the group was targeted by US airstrikes and Afghan commando raids.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been killed during the civil war.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2021
• On July 4, Israeli commandos swooped in to rescue the hostages.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 June 2024
• Waterproof flashlights clank from each wrist, and a 20-pound weight belt is slung commando-style across my chest.
  — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• The day is slowly turning into night, but American commandos own the night and, with the help of the HEO, will do so well into the next conflict.
  — Jared Keller, WIRED, 8 July 2024
• The deaths followed an earlier announcement of the first Israeli combat death in Lebanon since the start of the incursion — a 22-year-old captain in a commando brigade.
  — Samy Magdy, The Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2024
• The deaths came after an earlier announcement of the first Israeli combat death in Lebanon since the start of the incursion -- a 22-year-old captain in a commando brigade.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024