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Examples
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What's the -- you know, if it's a peaceful group, why use the term soldier.
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Mark Glesne, yes I hear what you are saying but you misunderstand the sense in which I used the term soldier.
Think Progress » Three Marines were killed today in Anbar province, 2006
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"What if you burn like you burnt these fields?" called a soldier.
Enjoyment 2010
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And this young many may not be a hero in your eyes, but he is a hero in his parents eyes and millions of others like me who are watching him go through the first few hours that will make him a man worthy to be called soldier.
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"We saw them gang up on them and beat them on the ground until they stopped moving," said one of the men identified as a soldier.
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Every year since then, the Mundlovu chief has conducted a ceremony at this site to honor the slain soldier.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Kira Nerys was the first alien he had ever met that he could truly call a soldier.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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He said he had "received no such information from (MONUC) observers" present in Kisangani, adding: "A soldier without a uniform is difficult to identify as a soldier."
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Here you had the classic sort of bare-chested square-jaw American with his rifle trained on a rather myopic round-glasses, buck-toothed, receding-chin Japanese soldier.
Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat 1989
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Some chav scum bucket can terrorise a whole area, burgle, mug and TWOC and be let off time and time again and we are to be hounded by the law because we objected to a scum bucket being called a soldier.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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