returned soldier
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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State media has published images of an emotional Kim embracing a returned soldier who appeared overwhelmed, burying his face in the leader's chest.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
After the war she married a returned soldier who had stepped on a landmine and lost part of his foot but turned up at a dance anyway on two crutches.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2013
Its purpose, seemingly, was to let the audience peer through the nightmarish glasses of a returned soldier suffering from the nightmares and flashbacks of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2013
We speak of the returned soldier, whose life turned at the same age mine did, and I fear for him a future defined by something bad and not of his doing.
From Slate ● May 1, 2013
For a returned soldier to find pleasure in drilling is as if a wood-sawyer, at the close of his week's work, should bring his tools into his sitting-room, and saw for fun.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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