Sentence examples for the soldiering from inspiring English sources
noun
A member of an army, of any rank.
Colombians, and Canadians are doing the soldiering, the Swiss are flying the planes.
"In order to do that, we have got to find a way of engaging with communities which perhaps are not naturally inclined to join the soldiering profession".
Joanna recalled, "He loved the soldiering part of soldiering, but once you command your regiment, at about the age of forty, all the postings after that are slightly more political desk-type jobs, which Henry hated".
Hence Elizabeth Taylor's jockeying in National Velvet (1944); Julie Andrews's female-impersonator-impersonation in Victor Victoria (1982); the soldiering of Disney's Mulan (1998); and the pursuit of education by the title characters of Osama (2003) and, of course, Yentl (1983).
For the troops living in the desert, it was a return to the soldiering life many hadn't experienced since earlier in the war or during training back home: eating Meals Ready to Eat, or M.R.E.'s; sleeping on top of vehicles or on the ground; firing artillery, albeit nonlethal, illuminated rounds to remind insurgents that Americans are still here.
He hammered the point in "The Great War" and other books, including "Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War" (1989), a relentless chronicle of everything that was dreadful or repugnant about the soldiering experience in World War II, and a memoir, "Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic" (1996).
