Corps of Engineers
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA, had touted the fire recovery as the fastest in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers cleared nearly 9,700 properties of hazardous items and other fire debris in eight months, one of the fastest cleanups of its size in modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
“There’s a plan for this?” a young national security aide asks after a superior tells him to notify the Army Corps of Engineers to dig them out if a bomb hits the White House.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers, respectively, for those accomplishments — not the city.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
The Péligre Dam, as it was called, had been planned by the Army Corps of Engineers and constructed in the mid-1950s, during the reign of one of Haiti’s American-supported dictators.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
