How to Use foot soldier in a Sentence

foot soldier

noun
  • Just that this is not just a foot soldier.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Bouchard, in contrast, has long been a foot soldier in the war on drugs.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This time, the foot soldiers were ready to go, just waiting to be called on.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Adult sons managed their own castles and had knights and foot soldiers of their own.
    — Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • Green has been a steady and sturdy foot soldier in spite of being dealt some rough rosters.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Deadshot could be your classic sniper, while Harley is an all-around foot soldier.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Long, inky shadows follow, like foot soldiers slipping through the trees.
    — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • But the foot soldiers are also among the first to be targeted in crackdowns.
    — Jasmine Garsd, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
  • In ancient times, pedones were foot soldiers whose job was to build and repair roads for the main body of troops.
    — James R. Hansen, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
  • The men — nobles, cavalry and foot soldiers — are dressed in knee-length tunics.
    — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Wars of various types are at a historic high, with youth being both foot soldiers and targets.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2025
  • And if that doesn't get up the vote well then some miserable foot soldiers hope that attempts at comedy will.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • Agamemnon would be a big muscle, like a pectoral, but Psoas is an unknown foot soldier.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • More than two dozen pairs of shoes, many of them as sparkly as Dorothy’s red slippers, are lined up like foot soldiers on the floor.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Kingsnorth’s break with the green movement, after years of being one of its most visible foot soldiers, cost him.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of state police, and the leaders and foot soldiers of local criminal groups, who take a piece of the action.
    — Outside Online, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Her job is to amp up the foot soldiers at the firm, to arm the analysts with confidence and ice-cool reasoning skills.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • FPVs are effective against light mobile targets like trucks and foot soldiers.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The problems metastasized because the staff lacked the foot soldiers in the locker room to keep everyone on board.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • By this logic, as the only game in town, ISIS would have its pick of foot soldiers.
    — Andrew Shaver, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2015
  • Christina Nutile is a foot soldier in Baltimore’s war on blight.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018
  • But at the state level, the groups are putting foot soldiers on the streets to deter people from signing such ballot petitions.
    — Rachana Pradhan and Bram Sable-Smith, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But Conneau does not carry himself like a foot soldier in a battle for the future of the Web.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • The Polish antifa was a foot soldier, a militant, a martyr for a noble cause.
    — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Congress has become the president’s foot soldiers.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The major players, the foot soldiers, and the clowns were present and correct in the Fiserv Forum.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Players aren’t a grand leader directing a nation, but one of the foot soldiers working with others to build something grand.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Lev Parnas is the latest Trump foot soldier to sing for his safety when his legal troubles mounted.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Experts say the helmet belonged to a hoplite, a kind of ancient Greek foot soldier who wore heavy armor to shield themselves.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025

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