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infantry

[in-fuhn-tree] / ˈɪn fən tri /
NOUN
foot soldiers
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Instead, it was sending infantry forward in single armored vehicles, or even smaller cars, motorcycles or quad bikes that were harder to spot and easier to maneuver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

He stayed silent until around midnight, when all the Ukrainian infantry posts were checking in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

In account of Saturday's events, Rutland told reporters that members of the infantry had been conducting "high-intensity combat training with live munitions" at a grenade range and attack range.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The once-familiar picture of a war fought with infantry at the front and dog-fights in the air has become increasingly obsolete.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

I can tell it’s been recently cut because of the uneven tan on the skin visible between his shirt collar and the back of his fitted sandstone infantry cap.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Industrial culture hardly represented the subcontinent, where infantries of workmen, captured in archival film footage, lugged baskets of construction material for a building designed to look machined.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

The Romans," says Napoleon in his Memoirs, "had two infantries; the first, lightly armed, was provided with a missile weapon; the second, heavily armed, bore a short sword.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

The two infantries were contending; gray Russian lines in the bottom land and already advancing up the slopes.

From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort

All other things being equal, both infantries suffer the same losses in the artillery duel.

From Battle Studies by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq

The soldiers, who deserve no little credit for their work, are members of the Twenty-eighth and the Tenth infantries.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert


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