How to Use infantry in a Sentence

infantry

noun
  • He joined the infantry after leaving school.
  • Many of them go on to fight in the infantry.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Like an infantry squad in such a film, each player has a hook.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Like an infantry squad in such a film, each player has a hook.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The infantry shortage is well known.
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • And the infantry platoon that lives there has to deal with the mess in the morning.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2021
  • An infantry unit in the same brigade endured three assaults in the first half of the day.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The Stryker can transport a full squad of nine infantry troops and a crew of two.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
  • One of his younger brothers, who was in the infantry, was also stationed there that day.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Its crew of two can transport nine infantry troops at sustained speeds of 60 mph.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
  • These radios, used in the field by infantry, have been a headache for the Army for much of the last decade.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Russian infantry rush in to exploit any gaps the guns blow in Ukrainian lines.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Its presence will save the lives of hundreds of infantry and kill many Germans.
    — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2018
  • This is most likely because they have been exposed to war, even if not as members of the infantry.
    — Mackubin Owens, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Above ground, robots are replacing even the most basic of infantry tasks.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Just this year, the first female infantry Marines joined a battalion.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • In the Marines, infantry and reconnaissance jobs have been all-male.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Oforah was an infantry rifleman.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • When Viktor’s infantry unit first arrived here, thickets of oak and birch trees lined the grassy fields.
    — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • The half track was one of the first vehicles designed to carry infantry in combat.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The Russians are fighting an infantry-heavy war with no vehicles.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
  • At the same time, Moscow’s infantry and armor poured into the country from the north, east, and south.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
  • More than 200 cadets would join the infantry and take on the bulk of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Mark Yost, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Army was to build a new infantry school outside the Southwest Georgia city.
    — J. Davis Winkie, The New Republic, 26 June 2020
  • Both enlisted in the Army after high school, with Paul joining the infantry.
    — Russ Bynum, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Both of those killed were infantry soldiers in the Givati Brigade, the military said.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • He was sent to Vietnam in 1967 as part of an infantry battalion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Eventually, the Ukrainian infantry team emerged on our screen.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025

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