billet
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Hundreds of them marched — marched — down from Northern California to this new billet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
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
“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
A bouquet of pink roses adorned the box, which read: “to Evan, game day special, love your billet brother and sister Colten and Shelby.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
At night in his lonely French billet, William lighted his oil lamp and gazed at her photographs.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
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
The caster is so large that it sits in its own eight-story warehouse, forming the molten steel into long rectangular blocks called billets and then cooling them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
We stroll over to the meadow behind the billets.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
Sheena and George have speculated that Eric was billeted with the Hunter family, and was perhaps involved in paying the munition workers in the town.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2020
American troops have been sent to relieve the British garrison protecting this neutral nation, and United States counterintelligence agents are already billeted at the old leper hospital.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
Extra police have been billeted in two cruise ships in Barcelona harbor.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2017
The houses in which we are billeted lie near the canal.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
“Unfortunately, they were engineering personnel and they were building billeting for the A.N.A.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2013
As I mentioned before, the constitution of the United States forbids billeting, taking as ground for this action that when soldiers are placed under a private roof constant friction is bound to arise.
From Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt
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Quartering Act (1765)
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