How to Use foot soldier in a Sentence

foot soldier

noun

• The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Bouchard, in contrast, has long been a foot soldier in the war on drugs.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2020
• This time, the foot soldiers were ready to go, just waiting to be called on.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024
• In Trump’s world and in the world of his foot soldiers, men get to affect women’s lives.
  — Glamour, 19 Mar. 2019
• The major players, the foot soldiers, and the clowns were present and correct in the Fiserv Forum.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• Adult sons managed their own castles and had knights and foot soldiers of their own.
  — Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• In ancient times, pedones were foot soldiers whose job was to build and repair roads for the main body of troops.
  — James R. Hansen, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• But the foot soldiers are also among the first to be targeted in crackdowns.
  — Jasmine Garsd, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
• More than two dozen pairs of shoes, many of them as sparkly as Dorothy’s red slippers, are lined up like foot soldiers on the floor.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• Green has been a steady and sturdy foot soldier in spite of being dealt some rough rosters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• Celebrity culture also says the prophet is the prophet and it’s my job simply to obey, a simple foot soldier in the Lord’s army.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• But Conneau does not carry himself like a foot soldier in a battle for the future of the Web.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• Deadshot could be your classic sniper, while Harley is an all-around foot soldier.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Her job is to amp up the foot soldiers at the firm, to arm the analysts with confidence and ice-cool reasoning skills.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• The problems metastasized because the staff lacked the foot soldiers in the locker room to keep everyone on board.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The men — nobles, cavalry and foot soldiers — are dressed in knee-length tunics.
  — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
• Long, inky shadows follow, like foot soldiers slipping through the trees.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• That man was Richard Smiley, one of the original foot soldiers of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
  — Shauna Stuart, AL.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Among the Republican foot soldiers was a 35-year-old lawyer named Brett Kavanaugh .
  — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• The outpouring underscored the war-weariness of the wider Afghan public and even among many of the Taliban and the government’s own foot soldiers.
  — Ehsanullah Amiri, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
• And if that doesn't get up the vote well then some miserable foot soldiers hope that attempts at comedy will.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• The Polish antifa was a foot soldier, a militant, a martyr for a noble cause.
  — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Sewell and so, so many like her—some of them leaders, some foot soldiers, some of them simply Alabamians who lived and witnessed it— witnessed the change.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 27 Nov. 2019
• Despite his denials, Giuliani is perceived by all in his path as little more than a foot soldier for Trump.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
• There was a point when Asian work was always coming: the waiter, the gangster, the manager, the godfather, the foot soldier, the scientist.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024
• Pence has been a loyal foot soldier and served as a vital link to evangelical voters for Trump.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Controlled by Marines, its officers were Americans and the foot soldiers were Haitian.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• Many are unaware that Nelson Mandela was not the sole foot soldier on the battlefield for equality in South Africa.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
• In what way? By focusing more on those who constructed Jan. 6, while at same time focusing on the foot soldiers.
  — Sam Jacobs, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• In many cases, their posts are eagerly shared and viewed by the far-right foot soldiers who joined the weekend’s riots – even if the authors quietly condemn violence after the fact.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024