How to Use battalion in a Sentence

battalion

noun
  • The stormers in their fifties were no longer with the battalion.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The battalion cleared a six-month backlog of mail in just three months.
    — Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN, 15 July 2021
  • The restoration of an aide to assist each battalion chief at the scene of a fire.
    — Monica Eng, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Butch said an ambulance or battalion truck could be added down the road.
    — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 16 Nov. 2019
  • And all of us knew this battalion had not been scheduled to land until late that day.
    — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Poised near the door is a battalion of black velvet ropes on their gold stanchions.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • They were then both flown to the hospital, the battalion chief said.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The battalion found a large hunting estate built around a château.
    — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • There’s a whole battalion on the lawn surrounded by large trees.
    — Sara Schneider, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Pavliuk, who was a battalion commander eight years ago when war broke out, takes the long view.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The battalion of lights, set up for a photo shoot set to happen later that day.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • Some deputy chiefs and battalion chiefs protested the move, but Courser stood firm.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The next day, Zinkevych resolved to create her own battalion.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • During one of his visits to troops in the field, Patton chose to dine with a battalion.
    — Kiernan White, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Isaiah and his battalion were then shipped off to Germany to fight Nazis.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • After a couple of hours, the battalion of specialists was marched down a dirt path to join the rest of the team.
    — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The battalion would go on to serve in France before returning home.
    — Michael Casey, ajc, 13 July 2021
  • The rest of his tank battalion was killed in fighting, with their bodies taken to Gaza.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His friend was later wounded and referred him to the Achilles battalion.
    — C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • One of his friends, a battalion chief in New York, had told him to bring his firefighting gear.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • As the sun begins to crest, the sliver of light offers a glimpse of a battalion of bats coming in for landing.
    — Melissa Locker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Some are wounded and the battalion doctor is treating the injured.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Her commander called her the best battalion officer in the brigade.
    — Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • LaCroix, the battalion chief, said crews have been trucking water to the scene, which is about a mile into the woods.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Firefighters quickly called more engines and battalions as the blaze grew.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Forty-nine former Australian tanks would be enough to bring the brigade’s current tank battalion back up to full strength.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The sergeant major formed up the battalion in the narrow space in front of the mountains of mail, and Adams marched to the front.
    — Mari K. Eder, Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Six engines, one truck, two battalion chiefs and one assistant chief responded to the fire.
    — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Waiting to reapply, Rauch spent three years in the Army, in an infantry battalion.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In a statement, Moran and Rosen praised the signing of the bill and the battalion's war efforts.
    — Eric Levenson, Neelam Bohra and Radhika Marya, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022

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