Example Sentences

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“I was deployed to Iraq in 2004 to 2005 as a machine-gunner on a gun truck, combat logistical patrol team,” Ross told the court during the Muñoz trial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

“If a withdrawal is not organised, it ends up being chaotic,” the machine-gunner explained.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

Evie Cluke coached Ian David Long, a 28-year-old ex-Marine machine-gunner who served in Afghanistan, on Newbury Park High School’s track team in 2007 and 2008.

From Fox News • Nov. 11, 2018

Army, but by 2004 he was fighting in Iraq as a machine-gunner.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2018

I gave the porter and the machine-gunner ten lire apiece.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway