Sentence examples for by platoons from inspiring English sources

They are greeted by platoons of white-aproned waiters who start out brusque and formal but are soon treating everyone at the table like an old friend.

With each year's festival counting on stars to draw attention, security is always tight, personified by platoons of beefy bodyguards in tuxedos.

After months or years of travel, and helped by platoons of researchers, he would pile up capsules of history and reportage before arranging them into a book.

The slaughter was conducted in March 1968 by platoons of American soldiers who shot and abused more than 300 victims — mainly women, children and elderly peasants — in a murderous frenzy.

A hundred G.I.s and officers stormed the hamlet in military-textbook style, advancing by platoons; the troops expected to engage the Vietcong Local Force 48th Battalion — one of the enemy's most successful units — but instead they found women, children, and old men, many of them still cooking their breakfast rice over outdoor fires.

Butterflies as big as fists and hummingbirds the size of thumbs dart through the controlled extravagance, but food is forbidden in the gardens, so you won't be pestered by platoons of ants, flies or yellow jackets, and there is scant standing water in which nature's wretched little phlebotomists can breed.

By "Platoon" (1986), however, dying soldiers are patently in pain.Films like "Battleground" (1949), "Battle Cry" (1955) and "Objective, Burma" (1944), starring Errol Flynn (see picture), sanitised war.

At the company's headquarters, a dry-erase board, known as the Kill Board, listed the number of confirmed enemy kills by platoon.

Though the precise arrangements varied from one army to the next, inside each line the units were organized by platoon, company, and battalion.

Mr. Dunn said there were rules associated with such attacks, established by platoon or unit leaders who organized them, such as no hitting in the head, face or groin.

"Surely he must in every quiet and prosperous moment hear the ceaseless whispers of those poor boys in the infantry, dying in the tall grass, platoon by platoon, for no purpose.