Sentence examples for a long convoy from inspiring English sources

My air conditioning stopped working during a long convoy the other day.

Outside, night had fallen, and there was a long convoy of vehicles waiting.

After the meeting the men and their entourage left in a long convoy for Sinjar.

Sadr and his retinue departed, crowing victory, in a long convoy of S.U.V.s, which headed back to his stronghold in Najaf.

Russia now has nearly 1,000 troops stationed in South Ossetia, and on Wednesday afternoon at the border, a long convoy of military vehicles, including eight trucks packed with troops, could be seen crossing from Russia into the breakaway state.

A moderate Shiite cleric, Sheik Qasim, recalled watching in amazement as a former student, who never earned more than mediocre marks, whizzed by stalled traffic in a long convoy of sport utility vehicles in central Baghdad.

The benefit of a 555 km long fuel pipeline connecting economic hubs and costing US$2.4 billion might be infinitely better than a daily 65 km long convoy of 30 000 litre tankers on an already busy freeway (Table 2, second item).

Add together the standard presidential motorcade and the already long convoy of a presidential candidate, and you reach a cumbersome 28-vehicle snake that nearly tied itself in a knot on the way out of the airport.

In the glary white daylight is a long angry convoy of white cars that looks as though it is on a collision course with the bus.

Tolstoy sees reality as a system of constant adjustments, a long, tricky convoy of surprises, as realities jostle together and the vital, solipsistic ego is affronted by the otherness of the world.

On Saturday, he flew on a chartered plane to Moenjodaro, where South Asian civilization was born some 5,000 years ago, and from there he drove in a long, dusty convoy of cars here to Ms. Bhutto's ancestral village, where senior leaders of both their parties met briefly to grieve and discuss the future.