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• Being in the national press corps in some countries is downright dangerous.From the entry press corps
• Helen Thomas is frequently referred to as "the doyenne of the White House press corps".From the entry doyenne
• The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.From the entry charge
• Critics, including many veterans of the diplomatic corps, have been alarmed by Mr.2025 February 19, Ken Bensinger, Michael M. Grynbaum, “Right-Wing Media Praises U.S.-Russia Talks as ‘Breath of Fresh Air’”, in The New…. From the entry rapprochement
• He was attacked by a mob of Chinese construction corps soldiers.2019, Rukiye Turdush, “How China tried to stop my freedom of speech — in Canada”, in Washington Post. From the entry East Turkestan
• And there are six corps cities, Shihezi, Wujiaqu, Alar, Tumushuke, Beitun and Tiemenguan among 22 county-level cities.2014, Xinping (李欣凭) Li, 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32. From the entry county-level city
• Ebullient and purposeful, Johnson rose quickly among the Foreign Service's small corps of China hands.2013, David Mayers, FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry Hankow
• Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.1998, John B. Wilson, The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades. From the entry pattern
• From squad leader to corps commander, the warfighter knows how to fight on the battlefield.1986, Military Review, volume 66, page 11. From the entry warfighter
• A dozen air corps of fireflies searchlighted the spot for an instant.1937, L. Ron Hubbard, All Frontiers Are Jealous. From the entry searchlight
• They were only for the US press corps.2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The…. From the entry special relationship
• This indicates that probably Muslims foretested a greater importance in the diplomatic corps than the modern western states.1988, Indian Journal of Politics. From the entry foretest
• To what extent is the project likely to provide results useful in the effort to Yemenize the teacher corps?1988, External Mid-term Evaluation Improving the Efficiency of Education System II. From the entry Yemenize
• Behind the 17th Panzer Division the corps echeloned the main force of its other division, the 16th Panzer Division.1968, Earl F[rederick] Ziemke, “Offensives on Both Flanks—the South Flank”, in Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East (Army…. From the entry echelon
• President Bokassa was greeted at Kinshasa Airport last week by Congo-Kinshasan President Joseph Mobutu and members of the diplomatic corps.1968 March 29, “CONGO-KINSHASA: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT IN KINSHASA ON OFFICIAL VISIT.”, in Reuters Screenocean. From the entry Congo-Kinshasan
• McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath.1932 June 6, “Religion: Churches v. Council”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2010. From the entry on the warpath
• Bill Moyers, President Johnson's press secretary, also was critical: "The White House press corps is more stenographic than entrepreneurial in its approach to news gathering.1997, Rodger Streitmatter, Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History, page 211. From the entry stenographic
• Sanguily protested that the army wanted an impartial civilian to replace Machado, but finally agreed to reconfer with the officer corps on the subject.1977, Jules Robert Benjamin, The United States and Cuba, →ISBN. From the entry reconfer
• Germany under Wilhelm II and Poland under Pilsudski exemplify a variant of militocracy where political preponderance and economic favours were restricted to the officer corps.1968, Stanislav Andreski, “Postscript to the second edition”, in Military Organization and Society, 2nd edition, University of California…. From the entry militocracy
• The soldiers seen at various stations belong to the corps of the Greek army that proved itself most effective in the recent war, the Evzonoi.1905, Burton Holmes, The Wonders of Thessaly: The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian Games in Athens; Grecian Journeys; The Wonders of…. From the entry evzone
• Though JFK was praised as a family man—married to the most glamorous first lady of the twentieth century—the press corps and the public wink-winked throughout his presidency.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books. From the entry wink-wink
• CNN’s Christiane Amanpour took the press corps’ Trumpphobia a loony step further last week, saying the former real estate mogul represents an “existential threat” to the media.2016 November 28, Steve Tobak, “The Media Is Overcome With Trumpphobia”, in Fox Business, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 08…. From the entry Trumpphobia
• And the gymnastic corps de ballet, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, gives further, infectious life to that feeling of perpetual motion, of a speeding, unceasing course of human events.2015 August 5, “Review: `Hamilton,' Young Rebels Changing History and Theater”, in The New York Times. From the entry corps de ballet
• This pretty-in-pink affair, for a couple (Abi Stafford and Jared Angle), four demisoloists and six female corps dancers, is set to a Britten score for strings.2009 May 22, Roslyn Sulcas, “Dancing to the Beat of an Elaborate Mathematical Equation”, in New York Times. From the entry demisoloist
• The rumor is after that, Chuck Todd told Gibbs that it was a chickenpoop move and was applauded by the rest of the WH press corps.2009 January 31, Bob Rudd, “OT Come and get me, coppers!”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
• These corps are usually discussed in literature as purely Turkic and an indication of Ottoman Turkic colonisation of the Balkans, as they allegedly only contained settlers from Anatolia.1989, Aspects of the Development of the Bulgarian Nation, page 48. From the entry Ottoman Turkic
• Also, much depended on an exceptional esprit de corps which permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains.1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 135. From the entry permeate
• The rudimentally trained drummer can apply himself to any musical unit—band, orchestra or drum corps—more proficiently than can the drummer trained only for one branch of drumming.1936, William Frederick Ludwig, Drum Technique in the Band and Orchestra, Monroe, NC: Ludwig & Ludwig, page 3. From the entry proficiently
• One afternoon the corps was due to shift, so that morning the cook said to the Turco, giving him his farewell tin: 'Oh la, la, Johnny, napoo pozzy tomorrow.'1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 237. From the entry napoo
• And you can expect the reps of many other indie labels to be in the hizouse to promote their wares and court the formidable press corps always present at SXSW.2004 February 7, Chris Morris, “New Books Reveal Survival Tactics For Today's Industry”, in Billboard, volume 116, number 6, page 42. From the entry hizouse

Meaning of corps

1. noun A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. noun An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
3. noun A corps de ballet.

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How do you use corps in a sentence?

Corps is used as a noun. For example: “Being in the national press corps in some countries is downright dangerous.”

What is a short sentence with corps?

“White House press corps”

What does corps mean?

Corps means a battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.