legionnaire

Example Sentences

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It was a heady trophy for a 13-year-old, presented to me at graduation by a rumpled legionnaire in a garrison cap decorated with military pins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

“Lady Killer” stars the leonine Jean Gabin as Lucien, a womanizing legionnaire.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Coup leader Mamady Doumbouya, a former French legionnaire, has pledged to install a unified, transitional government but has not said when or how that will happen.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2021

And although they don’t get a lot of screen time, Caine’s legionnaire comrades are an entertaining crew.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2015

Every legionnaire carried a harpoonlike spear called a pilum, a g/adius, a dagger, and about a hundred pounds of other equipment.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan