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Meanings of infantrymen in English

Russian
пехота
Portuguese
infante
Spanish
infantería
Catalan
infanteria activa

Military service branch concerned with combat by individuals on foot.

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        Usage of infantrymen in English
        1
        SNP-held districts suffered high-profile deaths of local infantrymen in the Iraq war.
        The Guardian
        2
        Pressing the advantage, British infantrymen promptly surged forward into the abandoned fortifications.
        The street philosopher
        3
        He snatched crossbows from infantrymen and dashed forward to discharge the bolt.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        4
        Three or four of the infantrymen came thumping across the flower beds.
        All souls' rising
        5
        The infantrymen clung to improvised positions formed behind bramble thickets and rocks.
        The street philosopher
        6
        But four infantrymen and five horsemen shamefacedly availed themselves of this permission.
        South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
        7
        Small parties of infantrymen were coming along, and ammunition and ration waggons.
        Pushed and the Return Push
        8
        An hour later we saw two infantrymen, who were evidently out foraging.
        Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
        9
        In Afghanistan, U.S. infantrymen politic with local potentates on reconstruction projects.
        Wired
        10
        They passed a British convoy near London, loaded with armed infantrymen.
        The Young Lions
        11
        The infantrymen then stormed ahead into the newly made shell craters.
        The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) / Neuve Chapelle, B...
        12
        The infantrymen, tramped their fastest and the mounted men kept pace with them.
        Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
        13
        That's right-maybe fifty thousand infantrymen stacked in one of these buildings.
        The Forever War
        14
        Their officer took my horse and I had to run with the infantrymen.
        Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
        15
        He gestured behind him to a block of a hundred infantrymen.
        Act of will
        16
        Those were Praetorian infantrymen, and they were standing shoulder to shoulder.
        Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
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