How to Use paratrooper in a Sentence

paratrooper

noun
  • My dad was also a paratrooper, so tonight was a huge night for me.
    — Kelly Martinez, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Just make sure not to tuck your trousers into them paratrooper-style.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 31 Oct. 2017
  • He was trained to be a paratrooper and played football on an Army team.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • As a young paratrooper in the Israeli army, he was shot in the knee.
    — Chip Reid, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But that was hard to do because the paratrooper had to control the chute, too.
    — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2021
  • There is a paratrooper beret, a live large-caliber round, and a pair of fake hand grenades, painted black.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • One 99-year-old paratrooper is still doing his part to serve the country.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Like when the paratroopers and Ted Danson show up in the movie, that wasn’t in the script.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • The paratrooper soon realized that the most important tool of the mission was his phone.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Two German paratroopers, who had been brought to the camp six days before, slipped out at night by climbing over a fence.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The first paratrooper appeared to come in a little hot, missing the mark but still landing safely on the field of play.
    — Nick Cole, ajc, 16 Sep. 2017
  • But there also had to be a full Moon, to provide light for the aircraft pilots and paratroopers.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
  • Rasul had served as a paratrooper in the Russian army in Chechnya, in the nineties.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
  • An Army paratrooper who served in Afghanistan, Greer works in real estate.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
  • Mullis injured his knee while jumping out of an airplane as a 17-year-old Army paratrooper.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2025
  • As the last paratrooper soars downward with a huge American flag flapping in the wind behind him, the gallery roars.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The other was a tall Israeli paratrooper who looked a lot like Clint Eastwood.
    — James Stavridis, Time, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Sidney Cornell, known as the first Black paratrooper to land on D-Day.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Huge transport planes filled with paratroopers and pulling airborne troops in gliders roared over the German west wall to drop their cargos in the rear.
    — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • The next scene was Nate, a paratrooper who viewers met in episode 1, explaining his story to Ury.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • After the shell explosion, Goolkasian, the tank gunner, hopped to an aid station with the help of a paratrooper.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The battle was also notable in that this was the last German paratrooper drop of the war, and they were supposed to secure a major road.
    — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Three of the dead were smokejumpers from Montana and Idaho, the paratroopers of firefighting.
    — Longreads, 9 May 2017
  • The paratroopers were highly trained and effective, making 1,200 jumps with the loss of only one man.
    — Sabrina Clay, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Soon after hearing the news, Marks went to an army surplus store in Key West and bought olive drab fatigues and paratrooper boots.
    — Longreads, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2021
  • As a young man in the mid-1950s, Cohen was a paratrooper in the Israeli Army.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
  • British paratroopers reached a remote volcanic island with medics and supplies to aid a former cruise ship passenger who may have contracted hantavirus.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The paratroopers are trained to jump into hostile or contested areas to secure key territory and airfields.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The paratroopers are trained to jump into hostile or contested areas to secure key territory and airfields.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The concert will also include a paratrooper ride, a silent disco area, a puppy petting zoo, activations, food trucks and water stations.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026

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