Sentence examples for broke formation from inspiring English sources

Off the coast near Georgetown, S.C., the fleet broke formation and dispersed far in all directions, each vessel doing whatever it needed to stay afloat.

He broke formation, and within a few minutes he was over the waves, heading towards Japan.

The cause of the crash was never fully established, although witnesses said the Mk 1A Spitfire X4583 broke formation and nose-dived into farmland in the village of Holme, south of Peterborough.

They broke formation above us and for the next ten minutes did things that I had not known helicopters could do, namely go almost upside down, fall nose-first to earth and turn on airborne dimes.

At 22 45, the carrier's lookouts spotted Archerfish on the surface and Isokaze broke formation, against orders, to investigate.

Leading three aircraft of the Geschwaderstab, the schwarm broke formation over the Ardennes as it approached the bombers.

"If one breaks formation, it knocks everyone else off.

As a junior supply sergeant in E Company, he ordered that a cadet be struck on the backside as punishment for breaking formation.

Tracking pre-selected waypoints with all the satellites reduces the average error further to 0.001, allows better polar imaging and continued operations even with a broken formation.

The variations here have still greater impact when unison tilts of the head become mirrored ones, and especially when the dancers break formation and bump.

The noise and the light caused the anchovies to break formation, and the mobulas went into a frenzy, devouring hordes of the rattled fish, but Hall had already turned off the camera, so he missed the shot.