What is "veterans"

Usage examples of "veterans".

All the cities built poorhouses in the 1730s, not just for old people, widows, crippled, and orphans, but for unemployed, war veterans, new immigrants.

And at close quarters, even mounted the nomads were no match for the disciplined, armored veterans Minucius led.

Older veterans reminded the younger that most sieges fell by treachery and dissension.

Paks could not yet read the hand signals the veterans used, but Stammel grinned.

In those weeks, a few of the younger veterans made cautious overtures of friendship.

This was real, marching with battle-scarred veterans around her, and soon the fighting would be real.

The Company lined up in order of seniority, which meant that the new privates, in the back, caught only glimpses of the glinting piles before veterans blocked their view.

This year, when the courier came, the older veterans explained what to do.

She found she was accepted by graying veterans as well as by eager young warriors her own age.

And it will help get them ready fast, for them to think of all you veterans as heroes: song fodder.

She and the other veterans stood guard while uninjured recruits helped the surgeons and set up camp.

Like the other experienced veterans, she had been assigned a night guard slot.

Some of the others were frowning, but Paks saw many of the older veterans relax, as if they had feared worse.

One of these veterans was Luke Day, who arrived the morning of court with a fife-and-drum corps, still angry with the memory of being locked up in debtors1 prison in the heat of the previous summer.

In Memphis, Tennessee, in May of 1866, whites on a rampage of murder killed forty-six Negroes, most of them veterans of the Union army, as well as two white sympathizers.