soldiering

IPA: sˈoʊɫdʒɝɪŋ

Examples of "soldiering" in Sentences

This thing you call soldiering is not what you think it is.
“The boy is in love with the idea of soldiering,” said Loaf.
Not by valor (literally "soldiering"), not by strength, but with My Spirit.
"A woman who calls soldiering a trade ought to be forcibly married to a parson," said the Colonel passionately.
One thing about 37 years of soldiering is that you do learn how to read an organization chart and how to take orders.
Remembrance Day actually about thinking about the specific soldiers who died, or about keeping the idea of soldiering alive?
The men reinforce the idea of soldiering as frat boys with guns: they party, call each other gay, wrestle around, watch a lot of porn and do public service -- in this case serve their country with diligence.
Finally, the men most opposed to the corps were those with the least investment in soldiering; they were significantly more likely than other men to think that their own work was "not worthwhile" and that they "would be more useful" as defense workers than as soldiers. 60
"And as for chucking their arms round my neck and kissing me," and he indicated another episode, "all my old mother said -- she was alive then -- was that she 'hoped I'd done fooling about furrin' parts as I called soldiering, and come home to live respectable, better late than never. '