noun
definition
A soldier employed in an infantry role
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Examples of infantryman in a Sentence
David, to his slight surprise, had become an infantryman.
But a cuirass and helmet seem heavy to an infantryman, perhaps seldom training with, or handling, arms.
They were important extra rifles, but being capable of firing a rifle does not make an infantryman.
Whilst sheltering in the first house, the General shot a german infantryman through the ground floor window.
The basic British infantryman, like his French and German contemporaries, was issued with his uniform, webbing and a rifle with bayonet.
At one point observed an Australian infantryman " The whole division turned at an angle almost 45 degrees to us.
The French infantryman was issued with either the Lebel or the Berthier rifle.
He found the job onerous and so joining the Army and the Worcestershire Regiment as an Infantryman at age 17.
This was extremely generous, when compared to the infantryman's one shilling and the ordinary sapper 's two shillings and sixpence.
Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed, said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve.
An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face.
A weal dog astwide a fence! shouted Denisov after him (the most insulting expression a cavalryman can address to a mounted infantryman) and riding up to Rostov, he burst out laughing.
This was extremely generous, when compared to the infantryman 's one shilling and the ordinary sapper 's two shillings and sixpence.
A little worried I backed it up, ready for more action, but all that the laser was firing on was a dead enemy infantryman...one that I had killed a while ago!
He was once an infantryman in a war (which war, we are not told) and came back with shellshock.