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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

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 man called out, “But Reb Boruch, why would they billet soldiers here if they are needed elsewhere for the war?”

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

State stands to lose not only the 12,000-plus personnel billets associated with the work but also the more than $3 billion annually that consular fees bring in.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2017

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

The notes of an accordion float across from the billets.

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

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

Three mothers with seven children, all from the Hackney area of London, had been billeted on the Tallis family.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

On the organization of a standing army after the revolution it was necessary to make legal provision for billeting owing to the deficiency of barrack accommodation, which sufficed only for 5000 men.

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




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