How to Use redcoat in a Sentence

redcoat

noun
  • American soldiers shot at the redcoats, who came up the hill in three waves.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • There are a dozen redcoat soldiers on their way to arrest everyone.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Walton was shot during the redcoat attack, fell from his horse and was captured.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 June 2026
  • Plenty of Irishmen served as British redcoats throughout the war too.
    — Cian T. McMahon, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The aftermath is a sea of redcoats slain throughout the countryside.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 29 July 2023
  • Rank-and-file soldiers are said to have rested under it, gathering strength before going on to beat the redcoats.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
  • The steamy soil said hell no to John Bulls, even dead ones, and pushed those rotting redcoats back into the sweltering sun.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • William hauls off and punches Ian, unprovoked, and then turns him over to the redcoats, before forcibly kissing Rachel.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Through mischance and rebel defiance, many of these same redcoats had failed to capture the fortress eight months earlier, despite standing at the gates.
    — / Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • And then, a troop of redcoats storms the house looking for Jamie, which forces him to pretend to kidnap Lord John at gunpoint.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Two additional regiments soon washed up in Boston, which added up to a redcoat for nearly every adult man.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Cobden may have known that Palmerston had assembled more than ten thousand redcoats to sail to the British colony of Canada (with more to come).
    — Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • For 150 years, British redcoats essentially used the same Brown Bess musket.
    — Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The appearance of redcoats in the streets convinced many of those in the latter camp, along with some former revolutionaries, to side with the British cause.
    — Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Smith changes costumes from Sons of Liberty garb, a blue wool coat with gold buttons that stands in stark contrast to the British redcoats, to a statesman's dress.
    — Maggie Hendricks, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
  • The Green Mountain Boys stormed in, pulling groggy redcoats and their families from the barracks and corralling them into a stunned cluster.
    — Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
  • After a small crowd outside Boston’s customs house pelted redcoats with rocks, snowballs, and insults, the soldiers opened fire, killing five and wounding 12 more.
    — Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The weekend’s stars are the Virginia militia, British Dragoons and Redcoats—all armed and dressed accordingly.
    — Katie Jackson, Fox News, 15 June 2017
  • After the British victory at Bunker Hill in June, the conflict between the rebels and the redcoats rapidly expanded.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • In the ad, over elegiac fiddle music, a fleet of Dodge Challengers speeds through a bucolic landscape and scatters a regiment of musket-bearing redcoats.
    — Alex Carp, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • Stephens seems convinced that the Second Amendment is contingent; that is, that its meaning and relevance rely upon the continuing prevalence of redcoats.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • With memories of the redcoats still fresh in their minds, Americans who settled the region in the early 19th century preferred the name Mount Tacoma.
    — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Warriors from more than a dozen Native nations in the trans-Appalachian West helped the redcoats engage rebel forces, as did perhaps twenty-five thousand Black fugitives from slavery.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Betaal is set during British colonial rule in a remote village where a two-century old evil spirit, a British Indian army officer and his batallion of zombie redcoats are unleashed.
    — Nyay Bhushan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019
  • Long before the redcoats surrendered at Yorktown, the reasons for Britain’s political and military failures had been thoroughly aired in London.
    — Nick Bunker, Washington Post, 22 May 2026
  • The slopes of Golden Gate Park were blanketed with drumming corps, students dressed as redcoats played war among the eucalypti, and beauties with long white gloves waved from convertibles bedecked with paper flowers.
    — Daniel Mason, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The history of sniping goes back to the Revolutionary War, when colonial sharpshooters, raised to use hunting rifles to procure game, turned their sights on British Army redcoat troops.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Henry Hall, who was said to be present at the Battle of Bennington in 1777 when the tide turned against the redcoats in the Revolutionary War.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2025
  • To garrison those vulnerable treasure houses, Britain had to reassign regiments from tours of duty in North America and abandon Philadelphia, the biggest prize the redcoats had taken so far.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

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