Collocations for "soldiers"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "soldiers" in context.
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soldier
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- they soldiered on
- soldier on in spite of the [difficulties, hardships, defeat]
- soldier on through the [recession, match, night]
- soldier on [relentlessly, willingly, determinedly]
- soldier in [the army, Iraq, the battle]
- UK: soldier on the job
- send in the soldiers
- the soldiers were [stationed, deployed] in
- withdraw the soldiers from
- soldiers in [Vietnam]
- missing soldiers
- soldiers killed in [Iraq]
- the soldier was killed in action
- the soldier was awarded the [Medal of Honor, Purple Heart]
- the soldier was promoted (for)
- the soldier's [life, emotions]
- train new soldiers
- [army, UN] soldiers
- soldiers from [France]
- is just a [common, lowly, foot, reserve] soldier
- playing with his toy soldiers
- the soldier's experience
- [document, capture] the experience of a soldier
- his [dad, sister] is a soldier
- has been a good little soldier
- UK, informal: cut the toast into soldiers
- UK, informal: dipped bread soldiers into the fried egg
'soldiers' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
able
- airborne
- ambush
- arm
- armor
- army
- attention
- blood
- bravery
- charge
- column
- compel
- contingent
- cot
- courageous
- crouch
- daring
- defend
- deploy
- deployment
- detail
- discipline
- dispatch
- disposition
- drill
- ease
- enemy
- engage
- entrench
- exit
- fallen
- field
- flank
- form
- formation
- fray
- funnel
- furnish
- green
- groan
- ground
- guard
- hem
- hole
- honor
- injured
- inspection
- instruct
- land
- lead