Sentence examples for * billet in from inspiring English sources

Suddenly it hits him: rather than leave the precious billet in his locker while he was in the operating theatre, he had it clutched in the palm of his left hand, secure under the tight surgical glove.

In November 1915 a German corporal in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment left his billet in a two-story farmhouse near Fournes, two miles behind the front lines in northern France, and walked into town.

They all have their billet in my armpit.... Though I kill them... it doesn't help a damn The hysteria of scratching and searching is mirrored by a frenzied accelerando.

Despite gel saddle covers, and a hovering technique over the cruellest stretches, I thought I'd never sit down again by the time we reached our first billet, in the riverside village of Homps.

Vismarkt's transformation from eyesore to cafe quarter has been ratified with the opening of two hotels: a discreet Novotel (+15 404 950, accorhotels.com, doubles from €59) on one side of the Dijle, and the Hotel Vé (+15 200 755, hotelve.com, doubles from €98), a plush designer billet in an old herring smokery, on the other.

After a truck bombing of American marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 marines and sailors in 1983, a government commission excoriated the institutional failures that allowed marines to billet in a vulnerable building that was guarded by sentries with unloaded rifles.

Sixty Germans had been billeted in a Norman farm house.

They were billeted in chalets, two to each one.

He was then billeted in Bethune in Northern France where he met a French woman.

A garrison of Wehrmacht troops is billeted in the village of Bussy.

When the Nazis invaded Croatia in 1941, the Gestapo chief for Croatia was billeted in his flat.