"soldier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the vast majority were considered incompetent due to their being essentially amateur soldiers with no prior training or knowledge.
- In Scotland, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, nicknamed Bobbin' John, raised the Jacobite clans but proved to be an indecisive leader and an incompetent soldier.
- The Confed was inclined to let the place rot and die on its own-the military outpost was a token, no more, and only incompetent soldiers wound up there.
- As a result, the Red and Blue armies consist only of incompetent or unwanted soldiers who would not be missed by the regular armed forces.
- He proves to be an incompetent soldier and soon spends time in an infirmary with pneumonia.
- The guards were incompetent soldiers, unaccustomed to sophisticated, trained killers like Yorek Thurr.
- He served his time in a unit of unfit and incompetent soldiers, and never fired a weapon at the enemy.
- Although Elphinstone was a man of high birth and perfect manners, his colleague and contemporary General William Nott regarded him as "the most incompetent soldier who ever became general".
- She was not about to let it all slip away because of incompetent soldiers.
- In the following scene, Willard reads a letter by Kurtz, criticizing the incompetent young soldiers sent to Vietnam, blaming them for their losing.
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