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
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
About twenty yards from our dug-out there is a small house that was used as an officers’ billet.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
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
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
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
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 retired couple, like many in this community, once billeted members of the Broncos.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2018
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
“Unfortunately, they were engineering personnel and they were building billeting for the A.N.A.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 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
Vocabulary lists containing billet
Quartering Act (1765)
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