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infantry

[in-fuhn-tree] / ˈɪn fən tri /
NOUN
foot soldiers
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Marine Silent Drill Platoon, which features two-dozen newly trained infantry Marines, and U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Parents summoning their kids to perform like seals was common in the 1980s, for they were officers and we were infantry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

You could think of it as the drone warfare of diplomacy, which is, instead of sending infantry in the normal way to do it and shooting up howitzers, you’re trying different approaches.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Satellite images appear to show that the ship was carrying the kind of trucks, armoured personnel carriers and light infantry vehicles seen in Bamako, according to experts.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Chamberlain mounted, put on the wide- brimmed hat with the emblem of the infantry, began walking his horse slowly across the field toward the road.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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

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

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




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