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
They were somewhat chagrined, therefore, to find several neighbors already arrived to pay their respects to the returned soldier.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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