in arms
see babe in arms; up in arms.
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How to use in arms in a sentence
Some of my comrades-in-arms got combat shock, not from the battle itself, but from the burial of the (Egyptian) soldiers.
Sperm Smuggling Creates Gaza's First 'Prison Baby' | Orly Halpern | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are similarities between him and his former comrades-in-arms Abdelhakim Belhadj and Sami Mostefa al-Saadi.
What the precise nature of this adopted "sonship-in-arms" may have been we are not able to say.
Theodoric the Goth | Thomas HodgkinOne she had led on to instant slaughter, and the other remained to look after his fallen brother-in-arms.
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeSomewhat more spruce was the arraying of our twin comrades-in-arms than we have seen it.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
"Perhaps it will be another such as the attempt to capture our brother-in-arms Mr. Wildfoot," said Marcel.
In Hostile Red | Joseph AltshelerThe Major introduced him as the son of an old friend—comrade-in-arms, he said, if I remember.
The Adventures of Harry Revel | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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