cavalryman
Americannoun
plural
cavalrymenEtymology
Origin of cavalryman
Example Sentences
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Even if the cavalryman is restored, he added, “nothing can change the fact that the finger was once damaged.”
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
While certainly a dynamic leader, and, Brian Steel Wills has argued, an expert cavalryman, perhaps even the Confederacy’s best, Forrest was certainly not a great commander.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2022
According to a 1907 newspaper report, few knew Scott’s horse was modeled after the favorite mare ridden by Kentucky’s Gen. John Morgan, a Confederate cavalryman.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2019
Munro went on to learn German in Stuttgart, studied a business course in London and served as a cavalryman in the Basuto War in southern Africa.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2019
There was not a cavalryman near, not one horse.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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