Sentence examples for battalions go from inspiring English sources

His last and finest poem, found in his kit-bag after his death in October 1915, is a conscious rebuttal of Brooke's attitude, which he dismissed as "sentimental":    When you see millions of the mouthless dead    Across your dreams in pale battalions go,    Say not soft things as other men have said,    That you'll remember.

"The first two battalions went downhill," he admitted.

Earlier this year, when Castro announced that Cubans should begin using more energy-efficient light bulbs, the battalions went from house to house across the country to deliver the bulbs and make sure that they were installed.

"When the battalions went forward, the stretcher bearers went with them.

No battalion goes into a war zone without a chaplain.

I had no idea why the battalion went to Firdos rather than to other targets.

These illustrated excerpts are from a memoir full of the cruel banality of engagement; the waiting, the sleeplessness, the lack of control over where your battalion goes next.

Behind me, I heard several of my men ask, with some urgency, "Lieutenant, is he talking about us!?" He was, but Cambodia held out and the battalion went ashore some months later in Vietnam instead.

He considered himself a pacifist and planned to serve as a medic, but switched to a machine-gun company when his Washington battalion went into action at Brunete in July 1937.

"Suicide bomber belonging to Al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion," went the report to the National Intelligence Council, "could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the C.I.A. or the White House".

The 1st Battalion went to France in September 1914 as part of 17th Brigade in 6th Division.