billet

The spot premium for low-carbon billet, a fabricated product often used in construction, has slid to zero from $30 a tonne in January, he said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2022

Some critics dubbed her the border czar — a title she has resoundingly rejected, insisting her billet stops south of the border.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

“When he was here, we would go for drives and he would sing, he would dance, he would laugh,” said his billet mom, Kim Pagé.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

One of the first things he did was inform his coaches and billet families from his time in Everett.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

“Plenty to keep the inner creature satisfied. Scorching June weather, and a top-hole billet for snoozin’, what, what?”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

But outfoxing competition from the private sector has proven elusive, particularly in cybersecurity jobs, even though the military offers tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses for such billets.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022

Many were paid more, too: At boarding school they had received vocational training that qualified them for better billets, as carpenters’ mates, shipwrights, blacksmiths, electricians and colliers, among others.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

Several women have completed the grueling training for elite special operations billets.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

A GI billets in a relative’s castle, haunted by a cowardly 300-year-old ghost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019

They’d built a fire there and charred billets of wood lay stuck in the melted tar together with ash and bones.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

The occupiers billeted at a local restaurant, Sashy, where Russian boots, military garb and ration boxes are still scattered about.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2022

It was here that Louis XIV's soldiers were billeted during the persecution of the Protestant Huguenots - ancestors of the modern population - in the 17th Century.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2021

More than 20,000 National Guard troops are billeted in the nation’s capital to keep peace during the inauguration.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021

Less than a mile away, as if in a rival armed camp, Mr. Kim billeted at his own equally fortified hotel, the St. Regis.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018

The five hundred marines, billeted all about North Square, arrived at double-quick.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“No one will be assigned billeting in any unit until all safety and habitability standards are met,” he said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff — how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2021

Midwife Edith Smith came to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers in the area during World War One.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2014

On Jan. 26, 2008, Corporal Santiago, Corpsman Carpeso and Hollywood were together in a billeting container when the corpsman was shot in the eye.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013

It has been the practice in Canada to grant exemption to postmasters from the billeting of the troops upon them.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir