infantryman
Origin of infantryman
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How to use infantryman in a sentence
The lack of a cannon is a particular problem, as the F-35 is being counted on to help out infantrymen under fire.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 | Dave Majumdar | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe key difference lies in how the police choose to use this gear – whether as civilian police, or as infantrymen with badges.
Infantrymen are required to demonstrate the ability to throw a grenade 35 meters; military women, only 25 meters.
Just outside the town a long line of infantrymen were plying pick and shovel in the formation of a system of trenches.
The Onslaught from Rigel | Fletcher PrattThere were also two corps of militia, an artillery battery of fifty men and forty infantrymen.
There, I afterwards discovered, a party of forty German infantrymen had been attacked, and all of them killed.
The Invasion | William Le QueuxThat means that hundreds of thousands of lives of infantrymen will be sacrificed in checking the waves of enemy troops.
The Romance of Aircraft | Lawrence Yard SmithHe saw his own infantrymen take to the communicating trenches and disappear, plainly as a part of the plan.
The Children of France | Ruth Royce
British Dictionary definitions for infantryman
/ (ˈɪnfəntrɪmən) /
a soldier belonging to the infantry
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