soldier

Ever since she was a small child, Tilly had always wanted to be a soldier.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ellie says she had been desperate to be an infantry soldier.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Former Afghan soldier Haidary Hamedullah risked his life to cross the Channel hoping for a brighter future for his family in Britain, but just weeks later UK authorities expelled him back to France.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

But Xenophon, up to that moment a common soldier, was chosen as corps commander.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

It’s the first day of her journey, and she is soon waved down by a Japanese soldier, ordering her to stop.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

That and other incidents have drawn attention to a controversial Thai government program that allows police and soldiers to buy subsidized firearms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

AFP journalists saw about a dozen armoured military jeeps going into the Qalandia camp, which Israeli soldiers did not allow press or residents to enter, in the occupied West Bank.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Outside a housing project near Ceuta port, Spanish soldiers detained a group of nine tired-looking migrants who were sitting on the pavement, guarded by troops with an armoured car, an AFP reporter said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Even during the depths of Covid, those Hot Pockets soldiered on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

But I gamely soldiered back into the sunlight and onto the pathways that line the National Mall, each ginger step kicking up dust.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

She could barely walk, but soldiered on with a smile for the photographers.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, the artificial-intelligence boom soldiered on, with strong performance spreading well beyond members of the “Magnificent Seven.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

I soldiered on, breathing through my pulled-up shirt and keeping away from the walls and any other ghastly surprises they might’ve harbored.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

As the sensitive, flute-playing heir of the boorish, beer-swilling Frederick William I, the young prince had scant interest in soldiering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

That is not the case in the United States anymore, but our financial markets had been soldiering on anyway.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

Dismissed for 149 or soldiering on for another milestone next year?

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

“She really taught us how to be strong,” Douglas said, “to hang in there and keep soldiering on to keep trying to see the good.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024

We plodded down the narrow band, the trees soldiering up around us, dark and tall.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys