How to Use national guard in a Sentence

national guard

noun
  • Sheikh Nawaf has also served as deputy chief of the national guard.
    — Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • And 68 percent approve of the use of the national guard to do the job.
    — Dallas News, 29 June 2019
  • But there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Three exits down the highway, the national guard is pulling people out of their houses.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2017
  • On Sunday the police and national guard started to push back more.
    — 1843, 5 June 2020
  • There are two national guard members waiting in line at the Starbucks on the ground floor.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 July 2026
  • The national guard is now in charge of restoring order in Brasilia.
    — Byaicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • At the apex of this isolated economy sits the national guard.
    — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The media ran footage of migrants rushing past national guard soldiers—a scene that looked like total chaos.
    — Jenn Budd, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
  • He was then given control over a new national guard unit, which critics condemned as a dangerous quid pro quo.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • Pickup trucks mounted with machine guns lined the roads to both buildings, with members of the army and national guard waving cars through.
    — Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Immigration agents and national guard troops in riot gear blocked the marchers, who were mostly from Haiti.
    — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Immigration agents and national guard troops in riot gear blocked the marchers, who were mostly from Haiti.
    — Nick Miroff and Mary Beth Sheridan, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The state is asking its national guard and FEMA for help with staffing.
    — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, the national guard hopes to strengthen its position by getting permission to have tanks in its service.
    — Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2023
  • The Russian national guard said its officers were still looking for the gunmen at the site of the attack.
    — Anton Troianovski Valerie Hopkins Anton Troianovski Julian E. Barnes Julian E. Barnes Paul Sonne Valerie Hopkins Anton Troianovski Ivan Nechepurenko Alina Lobzina Constant Méheut Yonette Joseph Yonette Joseph Anton Troianovski Alina Lobzina Neil MacFarquhar Ivan Nechepurenko Ivan Nechepurenko Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The national guard brigades tend to be lighter than their equivalent brigades in the Ukrainian army, air-assault force and marine corps.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Morgue overflow in El Paso, Texas, required the state's national guard to be called in to help.
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Florida had declared a state of emergency, and the governor called up the national guard.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Dozens of hospitals across the country are postponing procedures and calling on the national guard for help.
    — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2021
  • The teenager had served in the national guard for two years and worked as a mechanic in his civilian life, Evon said in a letter attached to his tweet.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But he has not been charged with a crime in connection with the beatings of protestors at the national guard headquarters in Venezuela.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Vitaly Rudenko, a commander at the national guard base just outside the airport gates, looked up in disbelief.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Trump’s also signed an order to send national guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee.
    — The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • During the Canut revolt, soldiers would use the numerous windows to hurl fireballs at the national guard.
    — National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Andrea Tsuchiya, a state national guard public affairs officer, said in a statement.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Large swaths of police units and the national guard have been dispatched in several cities across the nation as law enforcement attempted to keep the peace.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
  • Some suspects were taken to the Hole, a cellar located at a former Ukrainian national guard base on the edge of town.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • As he and about 50 others scattered, the national guard officers surrounded them.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The influx of national guard troops led to New York’s partial liberation this weekend.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024

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