How to Use storm trooper in a Sentence

storm trooper

noun
Definition of storm troopernext
  • The Stonewall window was smashed, and there were cops all standing around like storm troopers.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • Check out the Twitter video below which shows the scene in Houston when the Star Wars storm troopers invaded.
    — Chris McGinnis, Houston Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The person across from me definitely was short for a storm trooper.
    — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
  • Five days a week, in the foggy hills of San Francisco, 11 writers and artists discuss the minutiae of storm troopers.
    — Nathalia Holt, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Olivia Hernandez said of the video screen, which storm troopers marched across on a recent Saturday afternoon when the store was packed with shoppers.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Just because Darth Vader is the public face of the organization doesn’t mean every storm trooper gets one-on-one time.
    — R. Eric Thomas, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Not when the media's loudest voices described America as the Third Reich, making these agents the storm troopers.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • The finale is the storm trooper driving a Zamboni at the city’s ice rink, to help recreation services manager Molly Pietruszewski.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Lexus makes a white-metallic that glows like a freshly detailed Imperial storm trooper.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Hundreds of Poles calling themselves storm troopers marched behind what some experts said were white supremacists’ symbols, such as the Celtic cross and the black sun, a Nazi symbol.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2018
  • Litt paints himself as starry-eyed and semi-hapless, an ingénue who blacks out the first time Obama addresses him and identifies with anonymous storm troopers aboard the Death Star.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The horrors, as critics pointed out, happened offstage; his novels rarely identified the threat explicitly as storm troopers with whips or concentration camps with poison-gas showers.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • What: Virtual-reality trip to a molten planet where participants hunt down Imperial storm troopers.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 22 May 2018

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