Corps is an English word with synonyms like body. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Corps in a sentence
Related words
Corps meaning
- A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
- An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
Synonyms of Corps
Using Corps
- The main meaning on this page is: A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions. | An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
- Useful related words include: army corps, army unit, body.
- In the example corpus, corps often appears in combinations such as: the corps, marine corps, corps and.
Context around Corps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Corps
- In this selection, "corps" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, marine, engineering, watch, members, headquarters and employers stand out and add context to how "corps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1990 the corps wt is, activity marine corps systems command, corps members, service corps and army corps. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "corps" sits close to words such as implemented, guidelines and sat, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with corps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He also distrusted the Corps of Engineers — a feeling which the Corps, if anything, seemed to reinforce. (17 words)
The Army featured several corps, the corps featured several divisions, and the artillery was divided between the corps. (18 words)
Two more corps headquarters i.e. 2nd Corps Headquarters (Jhelum-Ravi Corridor) and 4th Corps Headquarters (Ravi-Sutlej Corridor) were raised. (21 words)
Most of the XII Corps was on Culp's Hill; the remnants of I and XI Corps defended Cemetery Hill; II Corps covered most of the northern half of Cemetery Ridge; and III Corps was ordered to take up a position to its flank. (44 words)
Confederate Union Grant's plan was for the V Corps (Warren) and VI Corps (Sedgwick) to cross the Rapidan at Germanna Ford, followed by the IX Corps (Burnside) after the supply trains had crossed at various fords, and to camp near Wilderness Tavern. (43 words)
He advised the Corps members to make their impacts felt positively in the lives and history of the host community, saying he was in the state to see for himself how well the Corps members were faring and expressed satisfaction with his observations. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
He assigned Hancock's II Corps to the assault on the Mule Shoe, while Burnside's IX Corps attacked the eastern end of the salient and Warren's V Corps and Wright's VI Corps applied pressure to Laurel Hill.
I Corps was closest to the railway, so it would move by train to support the right of XX Corps, while the other two German corps would march the shorter distance to XX Corps' left.
Most of the XII Corps was on Culp's Hill; the remnants of I and XI Corps defended Cemetery Hill; II Corps covered most of the northern half of Cemetery Ridge; and III Corps was ordered to take up a position to its flank.
These all-female Corps are the Women's Army Corps, the Women's Naval Service, the Air Force Women's Corps, and the Women's Corps of the Police.
Under the QMG office were Garrison Engineering Corps, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps, Military Ordnance Corps, and the Supply and Transport Corps.
The South West already has the Amotekun Corps, Lagos State has the Neighbourhood Watch Corps, Katsina just put in place its own Watch Corps.
In 2019, four Marines from Marine Corps Tactical System Support Activity, Marine Corps Systems Command, were selected as Marine Corps Installations West’s top NCO every quarter, with one going on to win NCO of the year.
She attributed the challenge to lack of synergy between corps employers and the state secretariat, adding that as long as postings were done without strict compliance with corps employers’ request, the challenge of corps rejection would persist.
Beret colors are also often indicative of the soldier's corps, although most non-combat corps do not have their own beret, and sometimes wear the color of the corps to which the post they're stationed in belongs.
Confederate Union Grant's plan was for the V Corps (Warren) and VI Corps (Sedgwick) to cross the Rapidan at Germanna Ford, followed by the IX Corps (Burnside) after the supply trains had crossed at various fords, and to camp near Wilderness Tavern.
He ordered the V and VI Corps to move behind the II Corps and take positions past the left flank of the IX Corps.
Longstreet would command Pickett's Virginia division of his own First Corps, plus six brigades from Hill's Corps, in an attack on the U.S. II Corps position at the right center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge.
Marine Corps Oswald when he served in the US Marine Corps Oswald enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 24, 1956, just after his seventeenth birthday.
The Army featured several corps, the corps featured several divisions, and the artillery was divided between the corps.
Two more corps headquarters i.e. 2nd Corps Headquarters (Jhelum-Ravi Corridor) and 4th Corps Headquarters (Ravi-Sutlej Corridor) were raised.
He advised the Corps members to make their impacts felt positively in the lives and history of the host community, saying he was in the state to see for himself how well the Corps members were faring and expressed satisfaction with his observations.
He also distrusted the Corps of Engineers — a feeling which the Corps, if anything, seemed to reinforce.
In response to a query, a spokesman for the Marine Corps directed Marine Corps Times to query U.S. Central Command.
Logline: Set in 1990, The Corps (WT) is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray – a dangerous move when being gay in the military meant jail time or worse.
While many states have observed that willful emoluments to corps members in their respective states, Gombe State has been working with the corps members without stipends for them over the years.
Phrases with corps
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with corps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the corps 46×
- marine corps 41×
- corps and 35×
- corps members 26×
- corps of 19×
- corps in 15×
- service corps 13×
- ii corps 12×
- army corps 11×
- corps nysc 10×