How To Use Fusilier In A Sentence
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Significantly, the route he has chosen will mirror that taken by his late father, Fred, who was a fusilier in World War Two.
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The only person who comes forward to defend the McCanns seems to be an "army wife, army mother" who posts as Vancysgu, citing a book called The Skinback Fusiliers, which the Arrsers also delight in slagging off because it portrays trainees at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire as "a gang of nasty little plonkers".
Hugh Muir's diary
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In the back is a group of Welsh fusiliers, and here's me, a ragged scarecrow creature from the swamp, an image from a schlock nightmare.
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The fusilier added that his family had been anxious about his possible deployment in Iraq since he received his call up notice in October, but they were supportive and proud of his role as a reservist.
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‘I spoke to fusiliers whose parents live in Halifax One of the most moving experiences for me was going to Arras in France, to the re-interment of two fusiliers who had died in World War I. The corpses had been found as a result of the War Graves Commission; there're still many people missing.Road, Whitworth and Spotland,’ he said.
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The caves in the granite cliffs were teeming with fry and there were times when I couldn't see my buddy through clouds of fusiliers, grunts and snappers.
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Schools of snappers and pompano blotted out the sparkling sun, while trevally and fusiliers whipped about in a frenzy.
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One of the most moving experiences for me was going to Arras in France, to the re-interment of two fusiliers who had died in World War I.
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There are fish everywhere - mixed shoals of snappers, fusiliers and grunts flowing in and out of the wreck.
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Regiments of fusiliers were assigned to guard the artillery trains, in which large quantities of gunpowder were stored and transported for the army's ordnance.
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Larkin left Oldham 10 years ago to see the world, signing up for a life in the army, joining the legendary fusiliers and rising from private to lance corporal, serving in both Europe and the Middle East.
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I was mesmerised by the interplay of the tuna and sharks, fusiliers and jacks.
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The spinner dolphins that had followed the boat out were not to be seen; instead there were unicornfish, clouds of snappers, fusiliers and the odd trunkfish.
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Bury Council is leasing the building to the Fusiliers at a peppercorn rent and will be providing an annual funding grant of 30,000.
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He is a Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and has published his war poems in a volume entitled Fleur de Lys.
Occasional Notes
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The contingent from the Royal Regiment - formerly the Lancashire Fusiliers - brought a sackful of cuddly toys to hand out as presents.
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Southern-based Irish regiments of fusiliers, such as the Dublins and Munsters, and the Connaught Rangers, were disbanded in the early 1920s when the Irish Free State was founded.
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A 21-year-old fusilier with the Lancashire Regiment, Norman had only been in France a little over eight weeks when he found himself, along with tens of thousands of his comrades, hemmed in on the beaches at Dunkirk.
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In another sector, men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were busy fraternising with the enemy and exchanging presents and regimental badges.
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The next layer up are the yellow-tailed fusiliers and the next the yellow-banded fusiliers.
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These nutrients feed plankton, which attracts mantas, whale sharks and huge schools of small plankton-feeding fish such as fusiliers and red-toothed triggers.
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Swarms of anthias, wrasse, emerald green triggerfish, damselfish, clownfish and butterflyfish shrouded it but never strayed far into the intermediate zone patrolled by trevally, tuna, jacks and fusiliers.
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The great clouds of yellow black and white banner angelfish, brilliant blue fusiliers, yellow tangs and smart surgeonfish are gone.
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He says that he, together with the lance corporal and the fusilier, attempted resuscitation before the arrival of the ambulance.
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Mann, whose remarks at the funeral of fusilier Gordon Gentle made headlines around the world, admitted he had been closely involved in the anti-war movement in his native US before moving to Scotland earlier this year.
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Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home.
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Dense schools of fusiliers swarm past, followed by squadrons of predators like big-eye trevally, mackerel and rainbow runners.
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Throughout the ferry, nudibranchs, groupers, puffers, and wrasses had taken up residence along with juvenile barracuda, fusiliers and rabbitfish.
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The fusiliers drive with a practised authority, zigzagging, never contravening each other's line of fire. The top-cover soldiers swivel with their rifles to their shoulders, eyes pressed to the sights.
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Two centuries ago, soldiers called fusiliers, who were armed with light flintlock muskets, fought on battlefields using tactics and formations trained on the parade field.
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Ubiquitous fusiliers massed by the thousand, with blue triggers, dozens of needlefish and swarms of other smaller reef fish.
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Again, the grenadier is a more recent vintage painting from a couple of years ago, while the fusilier is an old veteran of at least 17 years.
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And while my identification skills are at the "purple one with yellow stripes" level, I do also enjoy the evocative names: three-stripe fusilier, diagonal-banded sweetlips, filamented flake, oblong silver biddy and freckled goatfish, not to mention the charming category of odd-shaped bottom dwellers.
Dive Time
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Born in Ireland, presumably in Dublin, he became an ensign in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1745.
