How to Use legionnaire in a Sentence

legionnaire

noun
  • The Roman legionnaires tied bands of cloth around their necks.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2023-03-21
  • The legionnaires took much better care of me than of themselves.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 2020-04-11
  • Legionnaires' is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that thrive in warm water and infect the lungs.
    — CBS News, 2017-06-14
  • The legionnaires rent their parking lot during events at the Hollywood Bowl.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 2017-09-26
  • From Roman legionnaires to Napoleon’s troops, many armies have occupied Aragonese over the years.
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 2023-05-11
  • Style: Sun hats for babies come in a variety of styles, including bonnets, buckets, and legionnaire.
    — Casey Clark, Parents, 2024-05-23
  • The switch is also suspected in outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease linked to 12 Flint-area deaths.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 2017-06-28
  • An immaculate woman coming of age in a sinful world, fleeing her home with her husband and her baby, shielding the child from brutal legionnaires and a jealous king.
    — Luke Dittrich, Esquire, 2014-07-25
  • That same year, 35-year-old legionnaire Linsday Church was elected commander of her Seattle post.
    — Jasper Craven, The New Republic, 2020-08-28
  • Hudson noticed Howard’s camouflage legionnaire pants and struck up a conversation.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 2019-06-20
  • Visitors will see the gladius of a Roman legionnaire, the style of sword used by the soldiers that eventually gave its name to the gladiators who fought for sport.
    — Andrew Alexander, ajc, 2017-10-04
  • Given their lineage as an expeditionary force, legionnaires are often among the first French troops sent into a dangerous environment.
    — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
  • Nick Lyon is the highest ranking official to face charges in the crisis, which is being tied to the death of an 85-year-old man who had Legionnaires' disease. 4.
    — Kevin Vellturo, courant.com, 2017-06-14
  • Legionnaires disease is caused by Legionella bacteria, which is typically found in freshwater water.
    — Fox News, 2017-06-29
  • Preliminary test results indicate that traces of the bacteria causing Legionnaires' were found at the police station in East Harlem.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2017-06-12
  • Guests were summoned to the ball with an invitation emblazoned with the krewe logo of a roman legionnaire and Primus V, the krewe's King, who made a grand entrance to the ball to greet his subjects and await his court.
    — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 2018-01-30
  • The French Foreign Legion sidesteps this by requiring that legionnaires swear allegiance to the Legion itself – not to the country of France.
    — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
  • The legionnaires’ loyalty was largely to one another, but France fashioned the recruits into an effective force available for tough situations, especially in the French colonies.
    — Foreign Affairs, 2017-08-15
  • Babies born during water births are at risk of contracting Legionnaires' disease, a severe and potentially life-threatening form of pneumonia that infected two infants in Arizona last year.
    — Lena H. Sun, chicagotribune.com, 2017-06-08
  • But legionnaires ultimately decided to give it to the Veterans Museum, where it is displayed with other Civil War artifacts.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2017-05-02
  • Legionnaires' is a potentially fatal type of pneumonia or lung infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Ron Fonger, OregonLive.com, 2017-06-14
  • Legionnaires' is a potentially fatal type of pneumonia or lung infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Ron Fonger, cleveland.com, 2017-06-14
  • Since its formation, legionnaires born in more than 140 countries have fought under the French flag in a variety of conflicts throughout Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.
    — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022

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