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 | Rjohnson@al.com, 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

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