billet

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of them marched — marched — down from Northern California to this new billet.

From Los Angeles Times

The question for residents there – two dozen families and a few billeted soldiers – is what impact Republican candidate Trump or his Democratic rival Kamala Harris might have on Israel’s interests in the region now.

From BBC

Some terminated their service unimpressively, an example being former President George W. Bush, who trained as a pilot but never saw combat and whose service ended in a cushy Air National Guard billet.

From Salon

“We flew them in and moved them into billets,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

The troops were billeted with members of the clan, before turning on their hosts on 13 February.

From BBC