How To Use Soldierly In A Sentence

  • Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
  • There was a great deal of soldierly good fellowship.
  • Not only had the slaveholders perpetrated the preponderance of atrocities, and with impunity at that, but they had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. The Man Who Ended Slavery
  • Eh? Is not that a more soldierly sport than kinderspiel such as hand-grasping and the like? ' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
  • I am not sure which is funnier, "conscripted" or "other soldierly movements". Archive 2007-11-01
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  • His soldierly dislike of inaccuracy overtook his discretion. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • They're not engaging in soldierly behavior, they're engaging in geekly behavior. Writer Geeks
  • My arguably unsoldierly position on this issue sprang from no more than the normal personal reserves of courage and compassion, and not from any religious persuasion, which in fact I totally lacked, but simply because it was clearly the Right Thing, whereas abiding or participating in torture was clearly inhumane and personally repugnant to me, i.e. the Wrong Thing. Confessions of an Old Soldier
  • I was drafted in the fall of 1953… a most unsoldierly soldier, but a lucky one.
  • This was so effective that the soldier was unable to maintain a unsoldierly appearance even when out of uniform.
  • Not a style king, no way, but a legend among writers for the energy he put forth, getting his tag seen by major millions and then two weeks ago, and a genuine regret went through Ismael as he recalled being told, he slumped and sagged all over again and felt the deepest kind of soldierly sadness—Skaty 8 hit by a train while he’s walking on the tracks under downtown Brooklyn. Underworld
  • Bartholomew felt it necessary to apologize for the last magnificent, heartwarming condition, which he thought unsoldierly. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Dana has the most established religion, more sentiment, more reverence, more of England; whilst Mr. Percival is an upright, soldierly, free-spoken man, very much of a patriot, hates cant, and does his best. Uncollected Prose
  • His soldierly mien made him popular with the army.
  • In later years, his northern students shared with their southern compatriots admiration for his soldierly valor, of which they were continually reminded, as one of them wrote, ‘by the choliambic [limping] rhythm in his majestic gait.’
  • Though there have been tragic accidental deaths, and unsoldierly-like, inhumane, and unacceptable acts perpetrated by a few misguided, possibly psychologically damaged soldiers -- the heroics of the many young men and women attempting to bring about positive changes for the oppressed people across the globe should not be forgotten, and their sacrifices cannot be taken lightly ... especially by those of us sitting here safe at home. Cheryl Saban: True Colors
  • Which brings us back to "Bastille Day", the obvious parallel for this episode also featuring Apollo, Dualla and Billy as hostages, in which Apollo as the most unsoldierly soldier in the fleet manages to defuse the situation with almost no blood on the deck. News From the Bizarro-verse and Other "Sacrifice" Thoughts
  • Some leaders consider it unsoldierly to have a strategic focus.
  • So clumsy, so unmilitary, so patently allergic to soldierly duty except where it kept him with his beloved wireles set. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, but extremely attractive. War and Peace
  • After such testimony who can doubt the Christianlike behavior and soldierly qualities of the black man? History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
  • The elector, incensed at the unsoldierly destruction, challenged the mares-chal to a single combat. Sir Charles Grandison
  • But as a family member recalled, “Like a comet Gen. Stuart was gone, nor would he allow any of his train to remain saying that it was unsoldierly to sleep in a house.” Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
  • The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well. With Haig on the Somme
  • They've made snarky jabs about the administration using our soldiers as ' social workers, ' doing all sorts of unmanly, unsoldierly duties.
  • He rose quickly in an army which appreciated his soldierly presence and natural authority.
  • So clumsy, so unmilitary, so patently allergic to soldierly duty except where it kept him with his beloved wireles set. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Acceptance means that hereditary power will soon pass to his ineffectual, unsoldierly son, Richard.
  • Not that pathetic unsoldierly fate for Deryn Sharp. Behemoth
  • The soldierly looking red-headed woodpeckers, in their striking black, red, and white uniform, were much in evidence.
  • He was soldierly, flip, and intense about the defense of his honor, even when the smirch was well deserved or the fault his own. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • They did not use gas, and were never guilty of unsoldierly methods. Times, Sunday Times
  • The slaveholders ... had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. John Brown in The Atlantic
  • From a cerebral, indomitable, and ultimately overconfident persona, MacArthur tipped into an unsoldierly emergency-man mode. Magic and Mayhem
  • It was obvious that Peter's height came from his mother, a brisk brown woman with the soldierly posture of self-confidence. BARN BLIND
  • = The sentinel in the discharge of his duties will be governed by the regulations for sentinels of the main guard whenever they are applicable -- such as courtesies to officers, walking post in a soldierly manner, challenging, etc.; he will not turn out the guard except when ordered by proper authority. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
  • unsoldierly posture

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