Sentence examples for by a platoon of from inspiring English sources

Jacobs is apprehended by a platoon of Farc guerrillas.

Smith decided that the only way to really understand the recipes was to try them out herself, assisted by a platoon of graduate students.

There I hid for weeks, until I was liberated by a platoon of American G.I.'s who gave me my first taste of freedom.

Gardner has been adequately replaced, for the most part, by a platoon of 40-year-old Raul Ibanez and 35-year-old Andruw Jones, 35.

At which point, with a clatter of double doors, the room is invaded by a platoon of irate-looking people, all in a terrible hurry.

I sat with my rifle in a dark, abandoned airfield hangar, waiting to be bombarded by a platoon of armed soldiers.

In this paper, we address this issue by using a platoon of cars considered as more or less autonomous software agents.

I think Zia could more easily save her village by rounding up a platoon of marines instead of colored objects.

But as I recall, he was protected by at least a platoon of American soldiers and helicopters lying overhead.

Pretty soon, during one long hideous slumber party, Glen, sister Al (Christa Denton) and excitable buddy Terry Louis Trippp) are besieged by hyperactive corpses, a platoon of murderous little lizard-beings--and something that comes bursting out of the floor, looking like a cross between Moloch, Godzilla and Albert the Alligator.

But attacks on him by Mr. Cioffi, and a platoon of others who emerged in the 1970s, '80s and '90s -- including Dr. Sulloway Frederick Crewss, a retired professor of English at Berkeley; and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a former editor of Freud's letters -- have been met with vigorous return fire in scholarly journals.