How to Use doughboy in a Sentence

doughboy

noun
  • Twenty-one of the doughboys had suffered injuries or fallen sick over the course of the journey.
    — al.com, 7 July 2019
  • The generation of sailors and doughboys discharged in 1918 had the deck stacked against them.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The chimp was no doughboy, and one doubts very much that Norma ever opens a newspaper unless someone has told her she’s mentioned in it.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Congress complied, and in short order over a million doughboys were headed to the Western Front.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Visitors can even put on a reproduction of a doughboy's coat and helmet before entering the trench.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Follow a pattern based on the embroidery of the area or create your own design and make a poppy pin to commemorate the doughboys.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
  • At the bottom of the vignette is an inset illustration of doughboys — and one woman, a man in a suit and a dog — walking in formation.
    — kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The war has reached a low point after the debacle at the Chemin des Dames, and the American doughboys are still nowhere in sight.
    — Alice Kaplan, New Republic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • America sent two million doughboys to Europe and defeated the Germans.
    — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2013
  • Two doughboy statues on either side of the Confederate monument were targets later.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 1 June 2020
  • At Funston more than several thousand doughboys sickened, dragging themselves to the camp hospital or infirmaries.
    — Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
  • On this Memorial Day, those doughboys will be saluted along with other Americans who died while serving their nation in the military.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 29 May 2017
  • Her earthy variety-show humor, filled with soldiers’ stories, patriotic songs, dancing and acrobatics, endeared her to the doughboys.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
  • Supreme headquarters disclosed that American doughboys, possibly those in the western area of the bridgehead, were fighting for a lateral road, but its location was not given.
    — Wes Gallagher, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
  • If Americans had forgotten this doughboy, what chance does a soldier today—especially one who dies on an obscure battlefield like Niger—have to be remembered?
    — M.l. Cavanaugh, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • One exhibit highlights the damage an artillery shell would have done to a house in the French countryside, while another allows visitors to glimpse inside replicas of the trenches where doughboys fought and often died.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Social media is the world’s most effective rhetoric-undermining machine, and people who debate politics on social media build more defensive trenches and turrets than a doughboy in 1917.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017

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