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dispatch rider

NOUN
  1. a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)

How To Use dispatch rider In A Sentence

  • Mr Hornby, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, was ordered on a perilous mission while acting as a dispatch rider in Italy.
  • Once the cricket had begun, a motorcycle dispatch rider arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Worth worked for AP as a dispatch rider in 1934, also working as a free-lance photographer.
  • After word of the terrible deeds spread and was duly exaggerated, German dispatch riders could safely continue on their way, until reaching some other uninstructed part of the world, where the sequence would have to be repeated. How Technology Almost Lost the War « Isegoria
  • Worth worked for AP as a dispatch rider in 1934, also working as a free-lance photographer.
  • The Germans had no real equivalent to French chasseurs à cheval, but the Prussian army did raise Jäger zu pferd (horse Jäger) squadrons in 1897, based on Meldreiter (dispatch rider) detachments which had been formed in 1895.
  • Oxford Street when a message came through that an army dispatch rider was bringing a special disc from the headquarters of the commander of the allied forces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lean forward and I was a second world war dispatch rider. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once the cricket had begun, a motorcycle dispatch rider arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're lowly folk now, you and me, not high-flown royal dispatch riders, so we don't want to waste silver taking a room for the night. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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