How to Use brigade in a Sentence

brigade

noun
Definition of brigadenext
Synonyms for brigadenext
  • The morality brigade insists that the book be censored.
  • The brigades are expected to be in the vanguard of the attack.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • Soldiers from the 59th brigade, which is stationed near the front, pulled out a black body bag.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Against the rhythmic whoosh of my own breath in the snorkel, the reef crackles with the dawn brigade of fish feeding off the coral.
    — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Of those nine brigades, the documents said that six would be ready by March 31 and the rest by April 30.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
  • An ever-growing brigade of friends arrived and split up to go to the house across the street.
    — Laura N. Pérez Sánchez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Soldiers from a nearby brigade were dispatched to the scene.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • But the 35th and 37th are lightly equipped compared to Ukrainian army brigades.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • These brigades have yet to make their presence felt on the battlefield.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2023
  • The 110th Mechanized Brigade is one of the Ukrainian army’s newest brigades.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The Menu tells the story of what happens to a group of gastronomes who have made the pilgrimage to eat a meal in the hands of Slowik and his brigade.
    — Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The brigade later learned its soldiers were killed from the video released by Russian forces.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But choosing one from the brigade of pale swatches on the hardware store wall can be daunting.
    — Raya Rockwood, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some brigades lost contact with units under the bombing.
    — Oleksandr Chubko Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Now, Stars and Stripes reports that the brigade has renamed its airfield to honor the two pilots.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • Civilians armed with handguns and knives took to the streets, forming self-defense brigades.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 May 2023
  • But attacks on the Ugandan side of the border are rare, thanks in part to the presence of an alpine brigade of Ugandan troops in the region.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
  • As the brigade’s senior member, Golub was required to write down the names of the dead and to record their passport details.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • After the initial push of the 37th, other brigades helped liberate the four villages.
    — Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
  • The land was ringed by barbed wire and guarded by an armed security brigade.
    — Peter S. Goodman Jes Aznar, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Those brigades have been fighting without a break for nearly 600 days.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But the two older marine brigades, the 35th and 36th, are among Ukraine’s better formations.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The outlines of foundations of what used to be homes and businesses were shrouded in a soupy fog that the brigade said was smoke from fires and shelling.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Ukraine has requested a whole brigade with at least 100 Leopard 2 tanks.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That brigade is one of the Ukrainian units that have received training and advanced equipment from the United States.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Today the kitchen at Maison Nico buzzes with a petite brigade of chefs, plus counter service and a small team downstairs.
    — Jordan Michelman, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Hamas said the commander of the central brigade of its military wing was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Alona Koval’s younger sister, Maryna Golinko, is a medic and first lieutenant with the Ukrainian 36th brigade.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The brigade said Russia agreed but later posted footage showing that three of the soldiers were already dead.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But Lithuania is not ready to host a brigade, and after this exercise, the Germans took their troops and equipment back home.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 9 July 2023

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