How to Use reservist in a Sentence

reservist

noun

• By then, the Vietnam War had slowed down, so the Army allowed him to be a reservist.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
• One of his first moves was to get rid of an U.S. Army reservist with finance expertise who had been assigned to help.
  — TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
• And the retirement age of army reservists has been temporarily extended to boost troop numbers.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 18 Sep. 2024
• Thousands of businesses suffered as reservists abandoned their civilian lives to take up arms, and the country’s economy is shrinking at an alarming rate.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
• The Army report recommends procedural changes and new policies to better manage reservists' mental health.
  — David Sharp and Patrick Whittle The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 July 2024
• Officials called up reservists and warned the residents of the Golan Heights, which borders Syria, to prepare public bomb shelters.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 11 May 2018
• If war breaks out, my parents’ home in Seoul is in easy striking distance of North Korean artillery, and my brother and other military reservists would be called up to fight.
  — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• In 1991, Patrick deployed to the Gulf War as an army reservist.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• That could test the resolve of the hundreds of reservists who have vowed to stay away.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• Biggs has been in the Air Force for 22 years, all but four of them as a reservist.
  — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
• In 1948, six female Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the Navy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• Among them — an Army reservist who wore a Hitler mustache to his job at a Navy base.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Chron, 20 Dec. 2021
• The Pentagon on Monday announced the names of the three Army reservists killed as Sgt.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Josh’s mom, Alice, was an Air Force reservist for 25 years.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
• His own son Beau served as a reservist in the country before his death from brain cancer in 2015.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 26 July 2021
• There, resting on its back with arms open, was the body of a friend, Pasha Li, a 33-year-old Ukrainian actor turned reservist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Thousands of army, navy and air force reservists were being dispatched to battle the fires.
  — NBC News, 7 Jan. 2020
• He was called up as a reservist during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, again as a paratrooper.
  — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• In 1948, six female US Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• Oleh, a military reservist, is married and has a 23-year-old son.
  — Nathan Smith, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Sonja Airikki, a 39-year-old reservist who will lead the training next month.
  — Michael Hunt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Mathews joined the Armed Forces as a reservist in 2010 and was a combat engineer at a base in Winnipeg.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2019
• As part of his work as an Army reservist, Card was an instructor at a hand grenade training range.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• For the first time in Australia’s history, 3,000 army, navy and air force reservists have been called up and will be thrown into the battle against the fires.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2020
• About half are army reservists who in the past 10 days have returned to Israel from homes and jobs overseas to help secure the country and fight Hamas.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• The reservists refusing to fly under Netanyahu are aware of that.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Gold is now on a military base in the south, having been recruited as a reservist.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• All this as the numbers of reservists refusing to serve continued to rise.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• Prior to Saturday, Brenner had either been used as a reservist off the bench, or not used at all.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2022
• The officers did as told, and the blast killed the 25-year-old assailant, former Army reservist Micah Johnson.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024