Sentence examples for That platoon from inspiring English sources

Torre scrapped that platoon last week, installing the rookie Juan Rivera as the regular in right.

(Cry-Baby, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gilbert Grape and Edward Scissorhands. I hear that Platoon is good, too, but I haven't seen it).

One LCA's rudder from "B" Company had jammed, and that platoon landed far to the left of the rest of "B" Company, enabling them to outflank and destroy the gun emplacements.

"That platoon and company did everything right," he said.

As Sergeant Boler said one day, using Sergeant Williams's nickname, "In that platoon, Will's the daddy and Harry's the mommy".

Later, at her home in the Mississippi Delta, one member of that platoon, released hours earlier after more than five months, told of her experiences at Columbia during four stints for violations like running away from home and breaking curfew.

But we are prepared to believe that platoons of them are out there making life miserable for suburbanites who insist on driving into Manhattan.

Trials including a 200km trip on a motorway near Barcelona in May have found that platooning cuts fuel consumption by about 15%, because each vehicle (apart from the lead vehicle) travels in the slipstream of the one in front.

The company claims that real-world road tests show that platooning technology saves 10% fuel costs for the rear truck and 4.5% for the lead truck.

The study vehicles put in some 10,000 km (6,200 miles) of road, and – like the Japanese study – indicated that platooning could offer substantial benefits.

British historian Max Hastings notes that because of the delay in landing times by ten minutes, a substantial gap existed between the cessation of bombardment and the actual landing of the first waves of infantry, meaning that platoons of the 716th had ample time to return to their positions.