How to Use troop in a Sentence
- Where is his troop heading?
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The shortage of troops is only one part of the problem.
— Thomas Gibbons-Neff Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024 -
The French Armed Forces said 1,500 French troops are deployed in the country.
— Joseph Ataman, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Israeli troops on the ground inside the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
— Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023 -
Hamas has been pressing for an end to the war and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024 -
But in recent months, as U.S. aid has faltered, the troops have been forced to ration those shells.
— Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Israel said its troops fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
— Helen Regan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024 -
French troops had largely pulled out of the C.A.R. two years earlier.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 -
Ukraine's brave troops continue to make steady progress.
— Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Cookies sold by some troops will cost as much as $6 a box, up from $5 per package last year.
— Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023 -
Glenn-Pyle and her troop stayed in the area and waited for about an hour until a game warden arrived.
— Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Mexican troops spared only a 16-year-old boy who was with Crabb's group.
— The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Recently, a troop of Boy Scouts clearing brush there found a human skull and teeth.
— Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023 -
In response, our troops fired towards the spotters and hits were identified.
— Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023 -
One clutch of three assault groups, each presumably with at least a dozen troops, got wiped out; just three men survived.
— David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Since then, Israel has withdrawn many troops from northern Gaza and has shifted the focus of its invasion to the south.
— Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024 -
The incident was the first in the region to cost the lives of American troops since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its ensuing conflict.
— Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 -
That’s the beginning of a five-star review left by an assistant scoutmaster, who logs lots of miles on the trails with their troop.
— Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2023 -
Then there are the toxic traces of military conflicts, which linger long after the fighting has stopped and troops have returned home.
— Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Israeli troops and tanks are expected to remain in place around northern Gaza during the truce.
— Josef Federman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023 -
As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty.
— Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024 -
Belarusian troops – at the Kremlin’s behest – have built up on Poland’s border.
— Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024 -
Then there is the simple fact that Schumer has had more difficulty corralling his troops than McCarthy has.
— W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023 -
Being older Girl Scouts, her troop has also found other ways to earn money.
— Sari Hitchins, Parents, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Crowds lined the streets in the rain to take in the rare display of military hardware up close, cheering as troops, tanks, missiles and underwater drones passed by.
— Reuters, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023 -
When the war ended, Bennett stayed in Germany as an entertainer, singing for troops.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023 -
The Biden administration has so far refused to call the power grab a coup, because that would force it to remove the 1,100 U.S. troops stationed in the country and cut off aid.
— Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Around 50 scouts who have left the shelter participate in a virtual troop.
— Sara Herschander, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024 -
Across the border, the platform has become a lifeline for Ukrainians trying to keep safe from Russia’s attacks and track troop movements.
— Masha Borak, The Verge, 7 July 2023 -
The Ukrainian troops, Oleksiy added, were unable to suppress the Russian firepower.
— Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023
- The kids trooped off to school.
- We all trooped back inside.
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My family trooped back in and gathered on the ground floor.
— Maram Humaid, Harper's Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Dignitaries and members of the public trooped to a microphone to welcome the board, and to warn it of the work ahead.
— Philly.com, 9 July 2018 -
As the campers trooped to the ropes course, 10-year-old Emma Brackins told a counselor that the scariest part of the course wasn’t the zip line, like some kids said.
— Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2023 -
And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike.
— Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018 -
At one point, though, the students in his class on Friday morning who were at the game trooped down the first base line to greet their teacher.
— Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2018 -
Performers trooped up and down from the basement between scenes.
— Anne Kadet, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018 -
At some point Kia board members must have trooped down to the design center in Namyang for a formal signoff.
— Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018 -
The models trooped out in Céline’s sleeveless tees, now in silk with a twist in front, and soft trousers flopping over furry slides.
— Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 22 Dec. 2017 -
The head coach and some parents trooped to the cave around 9 p.m. and saw the boys’ bicycles outside, then alerted officials.
— Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 8 July 2018 -
Lawmakers and state officials should not troop to the White House for photo ops.
— Jennifer Rubin, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017 -
Not to be torn down by Mike Brown’s storm-trooping security dudes.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017 -
The pilots trooped into the executive dining room to discuss the news.
— Emily Ludolph, New York Times, 16 July 2019 -
And so, the kids trooped around Capitol Hill on Monday and Tuesday, meeting with top leaders in both parties.
— Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2018 -
For many older adults, that means a steady parade of home health aides trooping through the door, some more mindful of hygiene than others.
— Katie Hafner, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020 -
At the annual parade in central London on June 2, the 1st battalion of the Irish Guards will troop their color.
— PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022 -
As Brazil trooped off at the end, Uruguay’s giddy heroes hugged referee Reader.
— SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018 -
And, air tanks on their backs, red protective boots on their feet and faces masked, hazmat specialists trooped into the building.
— Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019 -
Their mythical enemy defeated, the warriors take their bows and troop off stage, to be replaced by a lone singer less than 3 ft.
— Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, 1 June 2018 -
When docked, the guests troop up stone staircases to sun-dappled courtyards built on cliffs for outdoor dinners with breathtaking views.
— Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022 -
At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
— Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017 -
At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
— Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017 -
Before not too long, patients began trooping in from hundreds of kilometers away just to be seen at this center.
— Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The color, or regimental flag, which was trooped in the ceremony belongs to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
— Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2023 -
Some of the larger accounts call in orders, but not many individuals are trooping from Downtown Brooklyn for a pen or roll of Scotch tape.
— Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018 -
The annual Trooping of the Colour, which is the queen’s birthday parade, features military units waving their flags (colours) while marching (trooping) in London.
— Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 June 2019 -
Ila Rallan used to have five different home assistants troop through her apartment in Mumbai every day: one cook, three cleaners and one nanny.
— Eric Bellman, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020 -
The investors trooped across the tarmac into the airport, carrying suitcases and wrapped in trench coats, wearing looks of grim determination.
— Yepoka Yeebo, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023 -
Eventually, the elephants finished munching leaves and trooped to a gushing river nearby.
— Amy Yee, New York Times, 4 July 2016
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