Sentence examples for battalion like from inspiring English sources
Battalion, like all the runners on Friday, has to be rated high enough to run in one of the seven finals, each worth at least £150,000, and he has qualified by running three times during the championship period.
"Battalion likes to be fresh so we deliberately ran him three times before the end of last year to qualify [winning once], and last Wednesday we gave him a racecourse gallop at Chelmsford".
Ripley needs to be trapped in an alien horror show on some distant exo-solar hellhole, not leading the charge against rampaging xenomorph battalions like a sci-fi Boadicea.
In the last few weeks, rebel fighters, invariably with Islamist battalions like Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham in the lead, have made key gains in the north.
FRED SCHEFFOLD After the Shift Ended Over dinner, Fred Scheffold, chief of the 12th Battalion in Harlem, liked to laugh about fighting fires.
Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views, and almost all to be intent on "bringing the fight to Kiev" when the war in the east is over.
They mostly give pseudo Crispin's Day speeches to battalions of the like-minded from the safety of the conservative ghetto.
As he drove to the next stop — Officer Edwards's house — Mr. Goodwin worked his cellphone, organizing maneuvers like a battalion commander until the trucks were lined up just right.
Like a battalion of soldiers in spandex, thousands of runners headed to Staten Island.
The cold pierced my nostrils like a battalion of needles, dissolving the migraines that so bedevil my life behind a lawyer's desk.
There are also lesser costs, like a battalion of part-time balloon blowers, who come to the theater to inflate the show's daily ration of 550 balloons.
