Sentence examples for a troop of three from inspiring English sources

D Company was supported by a troop of three conventional Matilda tanks and two Frog flamethrowers.

The previous day a 2/11th Commando Squadron patrol had reported that the track along Lyon Ridge would be passable by tanks if a bomb crater was filled, and on the morning of the 16th "A" Company from the 2/28th Battalion accompanied by a troop of three tanks and a bulldozer began to move south along it.

In a workshop at the Boston headquarters of Rethink Robotics, engineers are tending to a troop of eight bright red robots called Baxter.

My first opportunity to croak under machine-gun fire or be taken prisoner and learn to survive in Siberia presented itself when a troop of six or seven men led by a sergeant attempted to break out of the cellar of a one-story house.

At the end of January 1981, McKenna had about 500 men (including officers), and a troop of four Eland 90 armoured cars, formerly of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps, under Sergeant Stephen "Skippy" Devine, an Australian veteran of the Rhodesian Light Infantry.

Behind came a troop of some fifty cars and coaches, one of them bearing that essential morale builder, the tea-urn.

The outer ranks of a troop of several hundred fairy inkcaps, Coprinellus disseminatus, encircling a coppiced hazel stool, are already deliquescing into gooey black spore-laden ink that will soon be carried away on the feet of beetles and flies.

Our first camp was disappointing because we could hear Boy Scouts hooting and farting around, a troop of about sixty in green uniforms with red or yellow hankies around their necks.

A great frieze covers the back left wall: a pride of lions with Pointillist whiskers seems to be hunting a herd of bison, which appear to have stampeded a troop of rhinos, one of which looks as if it had fallen into, or is climbing out of, a cavity in the rock.

Sitting tall in the saddle, smoking a cigarette, he could as easily have been leading a group of settlers across the Old West as a postmillennial troop of eight that included an ophthalmologist and his wife from Louisiana, two high school teachers from Florida, a librarian from Chicago, a retired engineer and a photographer from Manhattan.

Researchers studying a troop of chimpanzees noticed eight out of 12 of them putting a blade of grass in their ear and letting it dangle.