How to Use D-Day in a Sentence

D-Day

noun
  • Stagg was not allowed to make phone calls to her because of the secrecy surrounding D-day.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • This group helped make the Allied landings on D-Day possible.
    — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Its successors were used decades later to plan for the beach landings on Normandy on D-Day.
    — Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Gliders played a key role in the early hours of the war’s largest airborne assaults, including D-Day.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Cécile Dumont, 92, is one of the few D-Day witnesses still alive.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • In his address, the King urged the world to always remember the sacrifices made by troops on D-Day.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
  • My understanding is that these were given to troops prior to D-Day and to other major battles.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Eisenhower, in particular, felt the magnitude of D-day.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • In the film, Scott’s Stagg arrives at Southwark House from Dunstable four days before D-day is planned.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • The success of D-day, a pivotal moment in World War II, partially hinged on the weather forecast.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • This April, Suga officially released his debut solo album, D-Day.
    — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The franchise went on to explore World War One, Hitler, Stalin and D-Day among other topics.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • His forecast was the crucial edge in D-day and the volatility of the weather is increasingly relevant in our lives, especially with our changing climate.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • The production design team re-created the famous D-day map from the Allied headquarters in Southwark House.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • The naval island is where the Navy developed the Higgins boat — the pivotal landing craft that ferried troops to the beaches of Normandy during the D-day invasion.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The film expands Haig’s play and includes additional characters and sequences, including the actual D-day invasion.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Organizationally, a trip to London for Wimbledon can feel like arranging the D-Day landings.
    — David Shaftel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Weather forecasting turned out to be an essential part of the Allies’ most famous gambit of the war — D-Day, the invasion aimed at gaining a foothold on the European mainland.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The importance of the weather D-day, secretly known as Operation Overlord, was timed based on several factors, including the weather, the tides and the moonlight.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Early June was picked for D-Day because of lower-than-normal tides and a moon cycle that provided darkness during the early stages of the invasion and, on a clear night, a moon glow after rising later on.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Secretary Hegseth seemed in his remarks to link immigration to the legacy of the D-Day landings by Allied forces who were liberating Europe from the Nazis.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • After Stagg convinces the leaders to postpone D-day, he is vindicated by a deluge of rain that arrives while everyone is attending church at Southwark House on June 5.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • In the meantime, China has ramped up production of assets designed for what would be the most complex maritime invasion since the Allies’ D-Day landing in 1944.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The opening act will include a Douglas C-47 Skytrain — the aircraft that dropped paratroopers over Normandy on D-Day — and the Air Force’s Wings of Blue parachute team.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2026
  • Invading Taiwan would be the most complex military operation in modern history, dwarfing even the D-Day landing of World War II, and must be coordinated by generals who have not waged a major war in over seven decades.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In this show, moon landings, D-Day and the Chicago World’s Fair have equal importance to the emergence and clarification of rights for Blacks, Latinos, women, union workers, LGBT folks and members of the press.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
  • For the next hour and 40 minutes, Maras and co-writer Haig, who also wrote the 2014 play from which the film is adapted, explain to us exactly how important the meteorologists of D-day were, beginning with the disastrous D-day rehearsal Exercise Tiger.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • During his first year at the University of Florida, after the Allied force’s D-Day invasion of Normandy in late 1944, he was drafted to serve in World War II after the Battle of the Bulge.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026

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