soldiering
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of soldiering
Example Sentences
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“The proudest moment was probably going to Paris with General Charles de Gaulle,” she said in 2016 after receiving an award from the British military charity Soldiering On.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023
Soldiering appeared to be an unlikely vocation for Swenson.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021
Soldiering was but a preparation for the troubles the world has in store.
From New York Times • May 23, 2018
Soldiering on through the silence, we can see a few key problem areas with “The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World.”
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2015
Soldiering, even in the Crimean War time, did not appeal to the girlishly gentle little chap, for, as he shrewdly remarked, he neither wanted to kill anybody nor be killed himself.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre
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