sapper

Example Sentences

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As for the vast stretches of minefields still lying in front of Ukraine's counter-attack - Dill, the sapper squad commander near Bakhmut, was quietly confident.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

"Of course, it slows down the movement of troops," said the commander of a nine-man sapper squad with the call sign Dill.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2023

A sapper contracted a fever and realized that her wisdom teeth were coming in.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017

The newspaper Novoya Gazeta published an interview with the mother of 20-year-old sapper Vadim Tumanov, alongside a photograph of an official notice informing the local military commissar about his death.

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2014

He promised that we would soon have a satire acted upon the rebels, writ by the notorious wit Major-General Burgoyne, with curtain-tunes and airs by this same excellent sapper to please the crowd.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson