billet

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

A bouquet of pink roses adorned the box, which read: “to Evan, game day special, love your billet brother and sister Colten and Shelby.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2018

One man called out, “But Reb Boruch, why would they billet soldiers here if they are needed elsewhere for the war?”

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

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

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

The caster is so large that it sits in its own eight-story warehouse, forming the molten steel into long rectangular blocks called billets and then cooling them.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018

He could not see over it, and he staggered to the steps and up them and blundered crashing against the door, shedding billets.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

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 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

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 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

Several back while at Edwards AFB..I was speaking with a couple of CPT's in the billeting break area.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

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

The billeting was the more deeply resented as it appeared that the troops were purposely billeted on those who had resisted the loan.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various