Sentence examples for battle formations from inspiring English sources

In a practical sense, drill consolidates soldiers into battle formations and familiarizes them with their weapons.

Super Bowl Sunday is imperial Rome, all armor and battle formations, while the Olympics are still classical Greece: all torches, wreaths and moral uplift.

Joining the Dutch army, he served mainly in the Dutch East Indies, where he became familiar with skirmish warfare and open battle formations.

He started March of Time, a company that traded in antique toy soldiers -- more than 5,000 of which lined his shelves, many posed in battle formations.

Those who survived were forced to find one another on the ground and then move and fight in small groups, many unrelated by unit, rather than in organized battle formations as planned.

Most of the Paradise reviews have commented on Seidl's outstanding framing, such as his iconic poster image of the European "sugar mammas" lined up on sun-loungers, the Kenyan beach boys opposite waiting, as though in battle formations.

Some experts interpreted this as the first archaeological evidence for a typical Han battle formation.

The descriptions come from "Diagram of the Battle Formation of the Brush," attributed to Wei-Fu-jen (272-349).

During the show a cluster of cypress trees arranged in battle formation appeared to march from one end of Karlsaue Park in Kassel, Germany, to the other.

One of those earlier games was a war game called chaturanga, a Sanskrit name for a battle formation mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata.

All the figures were finally placed, in battle formation and with teams of terra-cotta horses, in three basementlike pits, which were covered over.