How to Use national guard in a Sentence

national guard

noun

• And 68 percent approve of the use of the national guard to do the job.
  — Dallas News, 29 June 2019
• Sheikh Nawaf has also served as deputy chief of the national guard.
  — Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• The state is asking its national guard and FEMA for help with staffing.
  — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2022
• As a candidate, Mr. López Obrador had vowed that the army would pull back on the war against drugs and the national guard would be civilian-run.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• Morgue overflow in El Paso, Texas, required the state's national guard to be called in to help.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2020
• And since 1963 the national guard was the preserve of Prince (later King) Abdullah and his clan.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• The national guard is now in charge of restoring order in Brasilia.
  — Byaicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• On Sunday the police and national guard started to push back more.
  — 1843, 5 June 2020
• Among the plant’s more than 2,400 defenders were members of the Azov Regiment, a national guard unit with roots in the far right.
  — Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2022
• Those 100 Leopard 1s Ukraine is getting starting this summer could be just the thing to bulk up the national guard brigades.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The Russian national guard said its officers were still looking for the gunmen at the site of the attack.
  — Anton Troianovski Valerie Hopkins Anton Troianovski Julian E. Barnes Julian E. Barnes Paul Sonne Valerie Hopkins Anton Troianovski Ivan Nechepurenko Alina Lobzina Constant Méheut Yonette Joseph Yonette Joseph Anton Troianovski Alina Lobzina Neil MacFarquhar Ivan Nechepurenko Ivan Nechepurenko Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Three exits down the highway, the national guard is pulling people out of their houses.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2017
• The national guard brigades tend to be lighter than their equivalent brigades in the Ukrainian army, air-assault force and marine corps.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• At the apex of this isolated economy sits the national guard.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The teenager had served in the national guard for two years and worked as a mechanic in his civilian life, Evon said in a letter attached to his tweet.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
• Pickup trucks mounted with machine guns lined the roads to both buildings, with members of the army and national guard waving cars through.
  — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• On the Ukrainian side, the 93rd has defended most of the urban front since January, along with national guard and border guard troops.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The media ran footage of migrants rushing past national guard soldiers—a scene that looked like total chaos.
  — Jenn Budd, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
• Some suspects were taken to the Hole, a cellar located at a former Ukrainian national guard base on the edge of town.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Immigration agents and national guard troops in riot gear blocked the marchers, who were mostly from Haiti.
  — Nick Miroff and Mary Beth Sheridan, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2021
• President Vladimir Putin ordered the head of the national guard to draw up tighter gun regulations, the Kremlin said.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2021
• The deployment of national guard troops took place in April, when Ducey declared a state of emergency at the state's southern border.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2021
• During the Canut revolt, soldiers would use the numerous windows to hurl fireballs at the national guard.
  — National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
• Since the January 6 attack, thousands of national guard troops have been stationed at the U.S. Capitol.
  — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2021
• On Wednesday, police and the national guard raided a huge warehouse on the outskirts of Moscow, according to the state news agency Tass.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• Large swaths of police units and the national guard have been dispatched in several cities across the nation as law enforcement attempted to keep the peace.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
• Farmers in Boquilla, a small town about 350 miles south of the border, have taken to the streets, clashing with Mexico’s national guard.
  — Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
• In fact, the national guard hopes to strengthen its position by getting permission to have tanks in its service.
  — Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
• Florida had declared a state of emergency, and the governor called up the national guard.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• Vitaly Rudenko, a commander at the national guard base just outside the airport gates, looked up in disbelief.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024