marines

1. see tell it to the marines.

Example Sentences

The U.S.’s most advanced aircraft carrier is in the region, along with a flotilla of warships and a force of Marines.

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Their disappearance prompted a massive search that involved the authorities, the Mexican marines and the FBI.

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Only instead of regrouping in hell, as that old Marines saying goes, it’s in the oceans, where such compounds were dumped for decades.

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It brings to mind another famous saying, just as applicable to DDT’s longevity as the one about the Marines, from William Faulkner: “The past is never dead — it’s not even past.”

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Marines and sailors invaded and occupied the port of Veracruz, ostensibly to block German arms shipments to the government of Mexican President Victoriano Huerta.

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