private soldier
Example Sentences
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He was convicted of mercenaryism, which means taking part in a military conflict for material reward as a so-called "private soldier".
From BBC • May 18, 2026
One of the officers revealed that although Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, he basically runs this unit.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023
Against the background of military and social collapse in 1870-1 France, we follow the intertwined destinies of the peasant corporal Jean Macquart and the bourgeois lawyer and private soldier Maurice Levasseur.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed.
From Time Magazine Archive
“This is my son, a private soldier, Mr. Secretary—just as I was—a private soldier in the United States Army.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
