How to Use cadre in a Sentence

cadre

noun
  • His firm is among a cadre of law firms that filed the case.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Maduro and his cadres have threatened to lock up both of them.
    — Jorge Rueda and Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Looking on were a small cadre of bleary-eyed staffers and floor staff.
    — Ryan Nobles, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN, 28 May 2021
  • To some voters, this cadre of men all look sort of, well, the same.
    — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 9 June 2019
  • His cadre of dancers looked like a family dressed for church.
    — Brendan McGuirk, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Ahead of that cadre is a trio of smashes, which have yet to be beaten.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Boeing’s cadre of crash test dummies still have their work cut out for them.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • Even the fierce cadre of the young is observed with as much fondness as ridicule.
    — Dan Cryer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Both won the support of cadres of young people opposed to the war.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Helping the teachers are a cadre of high school-age interns.
    — Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • Since then, a small but growing cadre of artists has followed Young’s lead.
    — Roxane Gay, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The group’s own cadres are angry that Hamas has not tried to avenge weeks of bloodshed.
    — The Economist, 14 May 2018
  • From heat tools to styling creams, getting your hair just right can sometimes take a cadre of products.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • By then a cadre of cops was also trying to rid the pool of Black bodies.
    — Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Chau is among a cadre of workers who are using dating apps to boost their job searches.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The cadre of politicians was not the only to have foreign travel plans.
    — Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Flagg, however, is primed for success thanks to a cadre of Mavs stars.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 25 June 2025
  • Can the faith live on through a cadre of influencers for God, just like Troutt?
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The bash was crashed by a cadre of local brewers and beer fans who had hired a plane to tow a banner over that event.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
  • Picture a sea of tables, each inset with a grill, and a cadre of servers, each affixed to a tablet.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • The guy that wrote that, and this was written by a cadre of black history scholars, most of whom were black.
    — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And tech billionaires are now among the newest cadre of migrants to buy land in the islands.
    — Dara Kerr, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And Netflix has a whole cadre of series, both dramatic and comedic.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Lithogow is among a cadre of accomplished film and television actors who have a deep love of the stage.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • But behind the scenes, a small cadre of unpaid programmers went to work to patch the faulty software.
    — William Turton, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2021
  • To the right, trays of ribbons, bowls of buttons, and a cadre of pins and embellishment.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Later that year, he was named a cardinal, the top cadre of the church from which popes are selected.
    — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Kevin Labanc, in the same cadre of players, joined him shortly after.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The cadre of help most wealthy people surround themselves with was nonexistent.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the middle of the night the cadre awoke us to listen to the landing on a transistor radio.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019

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