foot soldier
Example Sentences
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Kudryashev said a commander dispatched him and another foot soldier with the goal of reaching a point in a forest near Kreminna in eastern Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
"He was an enthusiastic foot soldier in that conspiracy," Erik Kenerson, a prosecutor, told the judge on Friday.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023
Bao Ninh wrote perhaps the saddest, most agonizing account of the Vietnam War, in which he narrowly survived as a North Vietnamese foot soldier, in “The Sorrow of War.”
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022
He added that he attended the conference as a "foot soldier and spear carrier of the Conservative Party, purely in a supportive role to remind the world of what we did in Glasgow".
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2022
He’d graduated from foot soldier and now had other people working for him.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
