"competent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The province was thus denuded of many of its most competent soldiers.
- Though the Romans now number seven, nearly half their party are not competent soldiers.
- One book described him as a "competent soldier".
- It was straightforward, routine; any competent soldier would know this to be so.
- In his position, I wouldn't be too happy to see the only competent soldiers in the vicinity moving rapidly away, either.
- Captain Iston proved to be a competent soldier and one of the few who listened to her without trying to act parental.
- Oh, you can take a man of twenty and make him a competent soldier, fit and hard.
- William was not only a competent soldier and politician but he was an accomplished gardener as well.
- He served in the Gulf War and was described by military officials as a competent but not extraordinary soldier.
- In all Lampsacus we couldn't raise half that many competent professional soldiers.
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