How to Use D-Day in a Sentence

D-Day

noun

• Stagg was not allowed to make phone calls to her because of the secrecy surrounding D-day.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Based on a true story, the weather thriller tackles the intense days leading up to D-Day.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 July 2026
• This group helped make the Allied landings on D-Day possible.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Its successors were used decades later to plan for the beach landings on Normandy on D-Day.
  — Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Gliders played a key role in the early hours of the war’s largest airborne assaults, including D-Day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Either the Allies would lure the Nazis away from Normandy, or D-Day would fail.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
• Cécile Dumont, 92, is one of the few D-Day witnesses still alive.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• In his address, the King urged the world to always remember the sacrifices made by troops on D-Day.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• My understanding is that these were given to troops prior to D-Day and to other major battles.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• Eisenhower, in particular, felt the magnitude of D-day.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• In the film, Scott’s Stagg arrives at Southwark House from Dunstable four days before D-day is planned.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• The success of D-day, a pivotal moment in World War II, partially hinged on the weather forecast.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Yes, America is powerful, even more so than at the time of the D-Day landings in France in 1944.
  — Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
• This April, Suga officially released his debut solo album, D-Day.
  — Carita Rizzo, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• The franchise went on to explore World War One, Hitler, Stalin and D-Day among other topics.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 June 2026
• His forecast was the crucial edge in D-day and the volatility of the weather is increasingly relevant in our lives, especially with our changing climate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• The production design team re-created the famous D-day map from the Allied headquarters in Southwark House.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• The plan seemed impossible—intentionally walk into capture, face Nazi questioning, and make D-Day lies sound true.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
• Then, when the real D-Day began, those troops would be pinned down by Allied bomber missions and further drops of British and Canadian commandos.
  — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
• The naval island is where the Navy developed the Higgins boat — the pivotal landing craft that ferried troops to the beaches of Normandy during the D-day invasion.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
• The film expands Haig’s play and includes additional characters and sequences, including the actual D-day invasion.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Organizationally, a trip to London for Wimbledon can feel like arranging the D-Day landings.
  — David Shaftel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
• Weather forecasting turned out to be an essential part of the Allies’ most famous gambit of the war — D-Day, the invasion aimed at gaining a foothold on the European mainland.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Lingering French gratitude is evident in the various museums honoring the D-Day landings.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
• The importance of the weather D-day, secretly known as Operation Overlord, was timed based on several factors, including the weather, the tides and the moonlight.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Early June was picked for D-Day because of lower-than-normal tides and a moon cycle that provided darkness during the early stages of the invasion and, on a clear night, a moon glow after rising later on.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Secretary Hegseth seemed in his remarks to link immigration to the legacy of the D-Day landings by Allied forces who were liberating Europe from the Nazis.
  — CBS News, 7 June 2026
• After Stagg convinces the leaders to postpone D-day, he is vindicated by a deluge of rain that arrives while everyone is attending church at Southwark House on June 5.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• In the meantime, China has ramped up production of assets designed for what would be the most complex maritime invasion since the Allies’ D-Day landing in 1944.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025