How to Use rifleman in a Sentence

rifleman

noun

• He was awarded a Bronze Star and spent the rest of the war as a rifleman.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• All the rifleman has to do is press the release and gravity does the rest.
  — James Fallows, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2018
• Every Marine is a rifleman, and small-unit tactics are the lifeblood of Marine Corps units.
  — WSJ, 12 Apr. 2022
• Under fire from Spanish riflemen, the party was able to cut only two of the three telegraph lines and had to return to their ships.
  — Staff, cleveland.com, 29 May 2017
• Haughey was a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division, and his photos were meant to help boost morale and put a human face on the war.
  — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 18 May 2017
• Cancel joined the Marine Corps in 2017 as an infantry rifleman, said Maj.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Cancel had served briefly in the Marine Corps, joining in 2017 as an infantry rifleman, said Maj.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 May 2022
• Choi worked as a rifleman on a radar base before even earning his PGA Tour card, and was able to hit golf balls at two-day intervals.
  — Henry Young, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• Plus, the rifleman’s hand was now protected from the heat generated in the barrel.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
• In 1956, he was drafted into the Army and was trained as an infantry rifleman and in cryptography.
  — Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• If every Marine is a rifleman, then every sailor is a damage controlman, the Navy likes to say.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
• The West is filled with boulders, conveniently placed for riflemen, to spare them from lugging a bipod around.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 25 Feb. 2020
• He was thrown as a rifleman into the 112th Cavalry Regiment, out of Texas.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• His shrapnel shattered right elbow still bares scarred stories from his days as an Army rifleman.
  — Alex Butler, miamiherald, 28 Apr. 2017
• With the few surviving U.S. riflemen reduced to fixing their bayonets for hand-to-hand combat, German troops crawled as close as four yards to Sgt.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• Just as every Marine is a rifleman, every sailor is a firefighter.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
• Ross moved to a forward position, 10 yards beyond his company’s riflemen, and set up his light machine gun.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• Those riflemen are the infantry troops who put themselves in the paths of bullets and bombs while carrying heavy rucksacks, who jump out of planes and otherwise subject their bodies to extreme wear and tear.
  — Kate Germano, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018
• Despite this designated marksmen are still riflemen at heart and train to shoot shorter distances than snipers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2018
• There’s plenty of other good stuff in this novel, too, though true riflemen will no doubt shed a tear when a reloading room full of H-1000 powder and boxes of match bullets from Sierra, Berger and Swift goes up in flames.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2020
• Mamont, the ambulance’s rifleman, had met Artem while seeking help himself, after a Russian mortar left him with a brain injury and a disabled right hand.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The D.M., as troops call this position, was a recent adjustment to the corps’ small-unit organization, a role between that of regular riflemen and snipers.
  — C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2016
• Every Marine is a rifleman first, regardless of his or her specialty.
  — Tyler Bonin, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2018
• The deployment, as an infantry rifleman in the California National Guard, was hell.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• While every Marine who completes training is a rifleman, women largely fill support roles.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2021
• Woodruff, an infantry rifleman who was deployed to Iraq twice before being honorably discharged in 2009, said his program's focus is training service dogs.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• Both are active-duty riflemen stationed in Camp Pendleton in California, said 1st Lt.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
• His grandfather had been a rifleman for the Confederacy.
  — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
• For example, Marine riflemen, both active-duty and veterans, will often refer to themselves as 0311s.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2018
• The most crucial videos showed civilian protesters in helmets and winter jackets facing off against masked riflemen who had taken up barricaded shooting positions.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 30 May 2018

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024