Sentence examples for as convoy from inspiring English sources

Our new camp for the night had been the site of an ambush by Iraqi forces on a Marine convoy just ahead of us, and two dead soldiers lay on the side of the road, one face down in the mud, the other staring at the sky as convoy after convoy of military vehicles moved by.

Our camp for the night had been the site of an ambush by Iraqi forces on a Marine convoy just ahead of us, and two dead soldiers lay on the side of the road, one facedown in the mud, the other staring at the sky as convoy after convoy of military vehicles passed.

As Convoy cofounder and CEO Dan Lewis recalls it, his company, a two-year-old, tech-enabled trucking network, was invited to the full-day event organized by Greylock Partners and Y Combinator, the famous startup accelerator.

Outmoded by more advanced battleships in service, both ships served primarily as convoy escorts and naval artillery during the war.

Both ships were used as convoy escorts in the Black Sea in the final year of the war.

The same ships then journeyed back to the United States in late September as Convoy TU-2.

As convoys moved northward, the soldiers trained their heavy, turret-mounted machine guns on highway overpasses favored by snipers.

Ambulances roamed the city, sirens wailing, as convoys of machine-gun trucks drove past with gunmen cheering and occasionally firing in the air.

America is scrambling to find not just an alternative military base, but supply routes into Afghanistan, as convoys from Pakistan come under more frequent attack.

Crowds cheered as convoys carrying fuel arrived, and there were none of the riots or demonstrations that unfolded over the weekend.

The danger of attack on the road was expected to begin in the south and gradually increase as convoys approached Baghdad.