billet

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

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

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

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019

We are accustomed to a good deal in the billets, but this makes us feel faint.

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

Stupnikov slipped away and buried the compromised device—one of three in his possession—in the garden of the house where he was billeted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Extra police have been billeted in two cruise ships in Barcelona harbor.

From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2017

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

The billeting of troops was superintended by a civil magistrate of the district to which the troops were sent or through which they passed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various