How to Use garrison in a Sentence

garrison

1 of 2 noun
  • Walls work just fine when they are overseen by an alert garrison.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • At one point, in a fight against a German garrison, he was wounded in the face by sniper fire.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Last year’s event drew more about 5,000 people, the garrison said.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
  • The garrison town sits about nine miles from the capital and is the former stronghold of the junta.
    — NBC News, 25 May 2021
  • So a Ukrainian garrison will quit its city if there’s an imminent threat of getting cut off.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Joan enters the royal orbit via the scullery of a nearby French army garrison.
    — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • When the garrison was withdrawn in 1817, Cpl.
    — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The small room at the garrison, with an altar and church icons on the wall, had a somber feel as morning sunlight and the smell of incense filled the space.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • Iran maintains military assets and garrisons on the islands.
    — Sam Metz, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Iran maintains military assets and garrisons on the islands.
    — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Mueda, a garrison town patrolled by tiny groups of military personnel, used to be a hub for aid efforts.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The bridge, along with sea and air transport, helped the Russians to build up a powerful garrison in Crimea.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The trio, with little water, trekked 110 miles in five days to reach a Free French garrison.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the way the garrison takes care of its functions is also up for re-evaluation, Druell said.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 11 June 2021
  • It was founded in 1621 as a garrison against the marauding Danes.
    — Laura Moser, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2026
  • Soldiers from the Taiwanese garrison thunder down the road, still on guard for another attack.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The Ukrainian garrison lodges in basements, stages from under road overpasses and fights from trenches.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The United States Army last month opened its first permanent garrison in Poland.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Soldiers from the garrison formed a line and advanced on the Native Americans.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • As in Boston, soldiers on garrison duty continued to drink, gamble, and fight.
    — Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, the Alamo garrison was equipped with 24 cannons, including 18 that were mounted and ready to fire.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The wounded were flown by helicopters to the al-Tanf garrison near the border with Iraq and Jordan.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 Dec. 2025
  • While the troops mounted into their trucks, a soldier knocked on the trailers around the garrison to roust North and the Fox cameraman.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The city, which is called Kharkov in Russian, was established as a garrison in the 1650s.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • The building was used as a military garrison hospital during the Roman era.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Garibaldi, with some of the garrison, set out for Venice and reached San Marino before his small force fell completely to pieces.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Cozine, whose job is compared to a city mayor, took command of the garrison in August, 2022.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Reestablishing native plants and animals, such as through reseeding efforts, brings back nature’s own garrisons to keep future waves of invaders at bay.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • While a Russia garrison entrenched themselves with bull dozers and tanks, convoys full of troops and supplies from the 36th Army rolled through.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
  • Images show a sizable buildup of forces from Russia’s 41st Army, far from its home garrison in Siberia, analysts say.
    — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022

garrison

2 of 2 verb
  • The Syrian troops garrisoned there were well-equipped and dug in.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2019
  • One way to make sure real estate changes hands in just one direction would be by garrisoning friendly territory with mobile anti-ship missiles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The dish is centered around a fort-like construction of Japanese-style honey toast, garrisoned with ice cream, mango, sticky rice, roti bread and a drizzle of this and that.
    — Stuart Melling, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The attacks have also spilled into Niger, a vast desert nation that Western powers have been garrisoning into one of the world’s most strategic security hubs.
    — Nick Kostov, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Edmund Lockyer with a small party of soldiers and convicts to stake a claim by garrisoning King George Sound (at what is now Albany) on the south coast.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Edmund Lockyer with a small party of soldiers and convicts to stake a claim on behalf of Britain by garrisoning King George Sound (at what is now Albany) on the south coast.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • An 8-square-mile island, Iwo Jima was fortified by the Japanese over years of meticulous preparation and garrisoned by around 22,000 soldiers who were under orders to die in place.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021

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