MILITARY in a Sentence

Learn MILITARY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

306 example sentences for MILITARY, such as:

1. The military budget will trim a lot next year.
2. Baker argued against cutting the military budget.
3. He had reached the pinnacle of his military career.
4. Draw up in military line, strictly in military line.
5. He was charged with spying on British military bases.

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 Meanings and Examples of MILITARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
military
 a.  pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; of whole body of soldiers
Classic Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1  The wooden edifice itself had dark-grey walls and a red-gabled roof, for it was a mansion of the kind which Russia builds for her military settlers and for German colonists.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  Nothing, sir," replied the waiter, bowing, "except that last night there arrived a military lieutenant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Every conceivable subject was discussed, including politics and military affairs; and in this connection guests voiced jejune opinions for the expression of which they would, at any other time, have soundly spanked their offspring.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
4  In particular was a military staff-captain working body and soul and arms and legs to compass such a series of steps as were never before performed, even in a dream.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  At all events, for a moment or two our Chichikov felt that he was a young man again, if not exactly a military officer.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
6  With that went the easy bow of a military man and the agile backward movement of an india-rubber ball.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
7  Chichikov sprang up with the alacrity of a military man, offered her his arm, and escorted her, as on parade, to the dining-room, where awaiting them there was the soup-toureen.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  Meanwhile, Samosvitov's feats in the military sphere were being rivalled by the wonders worked by Chichikov's lawyer in the civilian field of action.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  Heartily glad to make your acquaintance,' said Vassily Ivanovitch, 'but you mustn't expect great things; everything here in my house is done in a plain way, on a military footing.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  'Welcome once again,' said Vassily Ivanovitch, raising his hand in a military salute to the greasy skull-cap which covered his head.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Draw up in military line, strictly in military line.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
12  The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
13  Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
14  Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
15  Now all these men were replaced by Speranski on the civil side, and Arakcheev on the military.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
16  University freshmen are taking part in the military training.
17  They were handed over to a military tribunal for trial.
18  It would change the military strategies of the former Warsaw Pact countries and lead to troop reductions.
19  The texts still contained an important difference on the issue of maximum overall foreign troop deployments allowed to the two military blocs.
20  Both sides also agreed to exchange information on a weekly basis between senior military commanders on troop deployments and movements.
21  One secret military unit tried to contaminate the drinking water of the refugees.
22  The military wants to allow only a sanitized report/version of the incident to become public.
23  In the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document.
24  One of them climbed aboard a soapbox and began informing the locals why gays should be allowed in the military.
25  He was charged with spying on British military bases.
26  Baker argued against cutting the military budget.
27  The government devotes a disproportionate share of the budget to military expenditure.
28  The military budget will trim a lot next year.
29  The rebels attempted a surprise raid on a military camp.
30  He had reached the pinnacle of his military career.