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
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
Several women have completed the grueling training for elite special operations billets.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
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
Our life alternates between billets and the front.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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
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
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
“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 party, after working very hard and accomplishing very little, divided the area up as the French suggested.
From Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt
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Quartering Act (1765)
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