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It’s hosted by the affable Paul de Gelder, a former Australian Navy bomb disposal diver and Army paratrooper who survived a bull shark attack in 2009.—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025 But the paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division went home without entering the city's streets.—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 9 June 2025 It was renamed in March for World War II paratrooper and Silver Star recipient Roland Bragg.—Louis Jacobson, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Notably, this force is made up almost entirely of regular army draftees and includes many of the elite IDF brigades, plus commandos and paratroopers.—Max Rodenbeck, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for paratrooper
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