How to Use squadron in a Sentence

squadron

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  • The single squadron flying the swing-wing Su-24s seems to have suffered the worst.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Before the rules changed, Mr. Klein said, his squadron launched about 16 airstrikes in two years.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • She’s expected to report to the Blue Angels in the fall and will train with the squadron through the winter.
    — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 18 July 2022
  • Later, a squadron of go-go boys ceded the stage to the drag queen Trinity the Tuck.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2022
  • The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron.
    — Corey Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The jet belongs to a training squadron of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
    — Josh Cradduck, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The Gloucester was part of a squadron of ships, so there were many eyewitnesses to the tragedy.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • At one point in the book, Harold dreams up a scenario in which a squadron of B-17 bombers drops sweaters instead of bombs.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Last year, the two squadrons trained together in Nevada and Hawaii.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The Marines declared the first squadron operational in 2015.
    — Josh Cradduck, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Our entire squadron, about 40 people, all lived in one tent with plank boards and one makeshift stove.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The Space Force’s own squadrons, Saltzman told me, were still tracking pieces of junk that date to the 2007 explosion.
    — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • He was commissioned in 2007 and was a leader in his squadron, the Fighting Bengals, at the time of his death.
    — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • On this trip, the passengers gasp at the squadron of five bald eagles overhead.
    — Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • One of them was on the staff of the battle group commander, the other one was the leader of the destroyer squadron.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • As the squadron approached the tip of South America, the weather worsened; the other ships in the squadron began to turn back.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The two hit it off, neither mentioning the elephant in the room—namely, that Jesse is the only Black man in their squadron.
    — Tim Grierson, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The airbase, which is one of the busiest military airfields in the U.K., is home to a number of frontline squadrons and training units.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • One day in February 1971, one of the back seaters in the squadron gave me some unsolicited advice.
    — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2021
  • At least two dozen pilots from Lieutenant Halverson’s squadron were among those who took part in the candy drops.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The new team members will report to the squadron in September for a two-month turnover period.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • That is especially true in the Air Force, where in some squadrons half of the pilots are reservists rather than full-time airmen.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • The squadron’s ordnance handlers interpreted it to mean the cable should not be plugged in until the plane was parked on a flight deck.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
  • He was given a tour of the squadron and its planes, including a simulator flight in the T-1A Jayhawk.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • To fight the hardest, a deploying squadron either must bring parts with it, or fall in a stash of spares at the overseas location.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • One depicts kites dotting the sky that, when blurred by movement, conjure a squadron of fighter jets.
    — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • One squadron should be on station in the narrow Taiwan Strait when the first Chinese rockets fall and the invasion fleet sets sail.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • One of Lawson’s best friends in the squadron was Lloyd Martin, who was shot down over Belgium and taken prisoner.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Hitler and Mussolini rushed bomber squadrons, tanks, artillery and other help to the rebel officers.
    — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • New team members will report to the squadron in September for a two-month turnover period.
    — Staff, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022

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