How to Use military in a Sentence

military

1 of 2 adjective

• He is being tried in a military court rather than in a civilian court.
• He has had a long military career.
• Hamas said the commander of the central brigade of its military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• At the same time, Elvis was also stationed in the country for his own military duty.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Sep. 2023
• The cause of the crash remains unknown, military officials said.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• The former military general and his wife, Lori J. Flynn, first purchased the home in 2001.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• The group donated about 100 toys to the Support the Enlisted Project for military children.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Here, young men wearing yarmulkes spend their days studying both the Torah and military strategy.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• In the 1940s, Eastman Kodak could point to decades of work in military technology.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• The Senate must approve the appointments of the most senior military leaders.
  — Alexandra Heal, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• After the war’s end in 1783, the tent and the rest of Washington’s military equipment went into storage at his Mount Vernon estate.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• These drones have been increasingly used to target military posts and troops.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Washington is younger and dressed in his military duds but the look is ever-so-wooden, and Rembrandt is not as famous as his father.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• In the 2000s, some young men from Derna went to Iraq to join the insurgency against the American military occupation there.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Among those killed was one of Hamas' top military commanders, Ayman Nofal, the group's military wing said.
  — Najib Jobain, Samya Kullab, Ravi Nessman and Matthew Lee The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Chinese armed forces have surrounded the island with military drills for days at a time on two separate occasions.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The official said the drone was ordered to be shot down after more than a dozen calls to Turkish military officials U.S. troops were in the area and would go into self-defense mode if the drone did not leave.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Before they got divorced, the family lived on a military base in Germany, according to ABC 11.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
• Ukrainian officials blamed a Russian military strike in the village of Hroza, in northeastern Ukraine.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Whitney and Cara wind up attending a party together at the home of a wealth military contractor who likes to collect art.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2023
• The Post could not verify the Israeli military analysis.
  — Carrie Keller-Lynn, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Overnight, six coastguard vessels, navy frigate, and other military transport were utilized in the rescue, but efforts have been hindered by strong winds.
  — Time, 15 June 2023
• Meanwhile, people living near military bases — and members of the military — have been getting sick.
  — Zoya Teirstein / Grist, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• But military strategists and policy makers across the West are already starting to think about next year’s spring offensive.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
• Roughly eighty-five per cent of the budget is military spending and entitlements, which neither Gaetz nor his colleagues seem willing to cut.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• In particular, the question of whether athletes from Russia and Belarus, a key military launchpad during the war in Ukraine, will be able to compete has become a flashpoint.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• Thousands of Ukrainian children remain in Russia and, according to Save Ukraine, some of them have been enrolled in military and naval academies across the country.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• It is expected to begin test flights in the first quarter of 2027, demonstrating the capabilities of the technology that could lead to a new class of military transports.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
• But a pause in the fighting could increase pressure on Netanyahu not to resume any full-scale military operations so long as hostages continue to be released.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Linker writes that for many male students, particularly those who had military training, undressing for the camera was no biggie.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024

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military

2 of 2 noun

• There were many military present but only a few civilians.
• The Israeli military has said that most of the people died in a stampede and that some were run over by the trucks.
  — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• In France the anti-toxin is kept with the French military and had to be brought to the hospital.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of air force jet fighters launched the attacks, the Israeli military said.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
• The Russian military boarded the vessel with the help of a Ka-29 helicopter.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The Israeli military says at least 9,000 combatants are among the dead.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• Israel’s military said the strike was a mistake and dismissed two of the officers involved.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• And more than 70 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting since the offensive was launched, the Israeli military says.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The Israeli military in recent days has issued rare admissions of fault over its conduct of the war.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Right before the machines knock the walls down, a group of school children, locked inside the building by the Israeli military, escape through open windows.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
• Israel’s military has a suite of flying or crawling robots to search and map tunnels.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2023
• Rubenstein, who has studied this issue for the last 25 years, said that for a long time, militaries followed these laws and made sure health care was protected.
  — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• If the aid package clears Congress, however, the Ukrainian military can count on a fresh infusion of shells.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Only a few have been allowed in as embeds with Israel’s military.
  — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Evolutionary change is still change, and the whole point of adaptation is that militaries must adopt new methods and equipment.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
• According to the Israeli military, more than two thousand rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip since early this morning.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Following Tsai’s trip, China launched three days of live-fire military drills around Taiwan.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• Well, Israel's military says it now only has one division inside the Gaza Strip.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
• The carts are the first line of debris removal after periodic air attacks by the Israeli military.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The news agency said Israel’s military reviewed all their video after the visit but nothing was removed.
  — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Israel's military has fired officers for their roles in strikes that killed seven aid workers.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• Activists from as far away as Colombia and the Marshall Islands are setting their eyes on militaries and war along with big oil as major spoilers to climate progress.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
• Israel's military said its forces recovered Katzir's body overnight in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
• The Israeli military said that eight members of the paramilitary border police and the army suffered light and moderate wounds.
  — Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• Ukraine’s military — from its highest ranking general to grunts in the field — hears the world tapping its foot and sifting daily battlefield reports for hints of progress.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• People like to believe that the U.S. military is kind of sacrosanct and that there's no way that there can ever be extremists operating in the military.
  — 5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Will the Israeli military help these children evacuate? DR.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
• The history of Ukraine is deeply intertwined with her own: Eighty years later, the Russian military destroyed her house on the first day of it invasion last February.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Heidi Levine and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The series puts a spotlight on the complexities of joining the South Korean military, and the extensive bullying that takes places within the org.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 7 July 2023
• His rivals in the Russian military have been humiliated by the fiasco, while Putin has struggled to save face and regain his grip on power.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023

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