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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "soldiering" in a sentence

    soldiering example sentences

    soldiering


    1. Tax collecting was a necessary occupation, much as soldiering and politicking was


    2. He had leaped to killer before he had even learned soldiering


    3. soldiering along here with me! We have had nothing for them to take fear from yet!” His smile


    4. Was it similar to the Pilgrims and Myles Standish—him hot-tempered but hired for his skill at soldiering?


    5. He knew the far end of a fart about soldiering but put him on a production line, or behind the counter in a shop…’


    6. “Wonder how I could think in terms of snuffing out a life, more so of someone with full of life; by the way, what about soldiering, apart from the sense of valor, don’t the poor youth opt for it for a livelihood


    7. “Then for a child seeing the sport killing of soldiering as healthy, they learn that sport bullying is fun and profitable


    8. And when the glasses were brought there was another ceremony--a clinking of Herr Dremmel's glass with each glass in turn, his heels together as in the days of his soldiering, his body stiff and his face a miracle of solemnity; and before drinking he made a speech, the Asti held high in front of him, in which he thanked the ladies for their good wishes on behalf of his betrothed, Miss Ingeborg Bullivant, whose virtues he dwelt upon singly and at length in resounding periods, before proceeding to assure those present of his firm resolve to prove, by the devotion of the rest of his life, the extremity of his gratitude for the striking proof she had given before them all of her confidence in him; and every sentence seemed to set another and a heavier seal on her as a creature undoubtedly bound to marry him


    9. The body is seldom, except in soldiering, held in a symmetrical position


    10. "Senor barber, or whatever you are, you must know that I belong to your profession too, and have had a licence to practise for more than twenty years, and I know the implements of the barber craft, every one of them, perfectly well; and I was likewise a soldier for some time in the days of my youth, and I know also what a helmet is, and a morion, and a headpiece with a visor, and other things pertaining to soldiering, I meant to say to soldiers' arms; and I say-saving better opinions and always with submission to sounder judgments--that this piece we have now before us, which this worthy gentleman has in his hands, not only is no barber's basin, but is as far from being one as white is from black, and truth from falsehood; I say, moreover, that this, although it is a helmet, is not a complete helmet

    11. "Anyhow, my dear Handel," said he presently, "soldiering won't do


    12. But the soldiering zeal being spontaneous among all ranks, and breaking forth into ablaze without any pre-ordered method, some of the magistrates were disconcerted, and wist not what to do


    13. This was not the world of soldiering


    14. "I have no money," thought he; "I have learnt nothing but soldiering, and now, since peace is concluded, there is no need of me


    15. And some are even let out as unfit for service—bad health! Though he is sometimes a strapping, broad-shouldered fellow, he's "not fit," because they're afraid of taking a man of that kind, for fear he should tell others that soldiering is against God's Law


    16. In France during November 1914 I received an abrupt reminder that soldiering with the Honourable Artillery Company entails an annual subscription


    17. Bob was her only unmarried child, wedded only to his clubs and amateur soldiering, and even less available than Stephen for a cruise


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    Synonyms for "soldiering"

    goldbricking goofing off shirking slacking soldiering soldiership

    "soldiering" definitions

    skills that are required for the life of soldier


    the evasion of work or duty