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billet

[bil-it] / ˈbɪl ɪt /


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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

The dirt lane to my new billet is lined with trees and thorny bushes, barely wide enough for one car.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Mr. Carter’s decision to open combat billets to women upended policy as old as the U.S. military itself: Women could only support, not fight in, America’s wars.

From Washington Post Oct. 25, 2022

Still, there have been well-documented success stories, with several women completing the notoriously grueling training for elite special operations billets.

From Washington Times Jul. 26, 2021

Later, Gerdau will move the billets into a furnace where they will be heated to more than 2,000 degrees and softened so they can be rerolled, “like Play-Doh,” into products, Mr. Skelley said.

From New York Times Jul. 24, 2018

Mattis preferred to be close to the fighting, saying he disdains "chateau generals," a World War I phrase for commanders who stayed in comfortable billets while their troops fought in the trenches.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2016

Our life alternates between billets and the front.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

As the soldiers were billeted with local families between 1943 and 1944, Ms Fernandez said she was hoping someone may recognise Pte Cole's name or photograph.

From BBC Jan. 5, 2023

Grey Zone, a Telegram channel linked to the Wagner mercenary outfit, said that around 500 men were billeted in the complex.

From Reuters Jan. 3, 2023

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

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

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.

From New York Times Dec. 11, 2017

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

I thought the idea a fairly good one, and Von Hildebrandt, having apparently arranged this with the billeting officer without any difficulty, I took them home with me to lunch.

From The Invasion by William Le Queux




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