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

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

Underneath were the ashes of a fire and blackened billets of wood.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

We were billeted in the same bunk room, and, after a dinner of polenta, sausage, wild mushrooms, a cabbage salad and strudel, they showed me the route they would take to Venice.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

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

The retired couple, like many in this community, once billeted members of the Broncos.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2018

“Because all the quarters billeted for majors and above are filled up,” Bull explained.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Neither were there provisions for quartering or billeting soldiers, or impressing wagons and other conveyances, in times of exigency.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving