old soldier
Example Sentences
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His defiance made for great theater when the Miller, an old soldier, called on God to spare his daughter the fate of being prey to a seducer.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2019
Anthony Hopkins’s embattled old soldier, Titus, and Alan Cumming’s high-camp Saturninus both command attention, but Taymor deserves full credit for making the experience both horrible and appallingly funny.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019
And since in a symbolic debate of this kind nothing is better than an old soldier, the retired Marine general and current chief of staff, John Kelly, was trotted out in an Oct.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2018
Desertion from the US army carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and the old soldier knew that if he tried to join his wife in Japan the US military would arrest him.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2017
The old soldier swung a pack from his back onto the ground, opened it, and pulled out a rope.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
