How to Use brigade in a Sentence

brigade

noun
  • The morality brigade insists that the book be censored.
  • Their brigades are like one out of six that work.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • These brigades have yet to make their presence felt on the battlefield.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
  • An ever-growing brigade of friends arrived and split up to go to the house across the street.
    — Laura N. Pérez Sánchez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The brigades are expected to be in the vanguard of the attack.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • The land was ringed by barbed wire and guarded by an armed security brigade.
    — Peter S. Goodman Jes Aznar, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Soldiers from the 59th brigade, which is stationed near the front, pulled out a black body bag.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • But choosing one from the brigade of pale swatches on the hardware store wall can be daunting.
    — Raya Rockwood, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For Tracy, the brigade represents more than just fans.
    — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Civilians armed with handguns and knives took to the streets, forming self-defense brigades.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 May 2023
  • Those brigades have been fighting without a break for nearly 600 days.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Interestingly, this is also not the first time such a feat has been achieved by the brigade.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The brigade later learned its soldiers were killed from the video released by Russian forces.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Cuban medical brigades have served as the backbone of fragile health systems.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Still, these cracks in the coalition have not caused a shift in the brigades’ determination to fight.
    — Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This brigade has collected supplies and wants to allocate them all.
    — Alana Casanova-Burgess, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2022
  • As the first hints of fall wash over the city, a brigade of some of the world's biggest pop stars will swing through Nashville on tour.
    — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The contrarian brigade sometimes seems to be waging a war on irony itself.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The medical brigades have for years been a key source of revenue for the Cuban government.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The trio, plus a new resident who joins their little brigade, must work to uncover whodunit.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So even if disconnected from headquarters, a brigade can still use the system.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • A number of other Ukrainian brigades have created their own youth wings.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Moments after we were seated, steaming glass cups of black tea were poured, and a brigade of small plates began to arrive.
    — Georgeanne Brennan, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Her commander called her the best battalion officer in the brigade.
    — Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ukraine has requested a whole brigade with at least 100 Leopard 2 tanks.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • One brigade, or a third of the division, had been sent to Vietnam seven weeks earlier.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Hamas said the commander of the central brigade of its military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Hegseth led a pushup brigade with cadets, officers and fans at the game that broke a Guiness World Record.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The brigade said Russia agreed but later posted footage showing that three of the soldiers were already dead.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But the 35th and 37th are lightly equipped compared to Ukrainian army brigades.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 July 2023

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