billet
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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
Several women have completed the grueling training for elite special operations billets.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 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
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus rejected the Marine Corps request to exclude women from infantry billets.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2017
We were just coming back from the front line, and at a turning of the road near our billets, marvellous in the morning twilight, stood this cherry tree before us.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
They have skated in 11 cities, four time zones and two countries, flown in every direction on the compass and billeted in almost a dozen hotels across the continent.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
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
The officers were billeted in private homes, even in Jewish homes.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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
When I saw the faces of the men who did business in that building I felt that there had been a mistake in their billeting.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Vocabulary lists containing billet
Quartering Act (1765)
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
Novel Study: Night, Chapters 1–4
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
