Sentence examples for column halt from inspiring English sources

"Column halt!" the lieutenant cried.

But his body language made it clear: He wanted the slow-moving column halted, and halt it did, the huge treads on the lead tank grinding to a stop just a few feet from his face.

The column halted, and the baggage was drawn back inside the legions.

And the troop columns halted".

All Saladin's best efforts could not dislocate the Crusader column, or halt its advance in the direction of Arsuf.

Then in late July 1958, Guevara played a critical role in the Battle of Las Mercedes by using his column to halt a force of 1,500 men called up by Batista's General Cantillo in a plan to encircle and destroy Castro's forces.

Smith was wounded in the thigh sometime on the way back to Lexington, and the entire British column was halted in this ambush now known as "Parker's Revenge".

Six days earlier, Qaddafi's armored columns had halted the rebels on their ill-planned, euphoric advance westward toward Tripoli.

Mikael McIntosh, 20, sat on a sand berm and swapped combat tales while their column stood at a halt on the road toward Baghdad.

Government forces in Luhansk reported new fighting on Saturday in the area where the soldiers were killed early the previous day, apparently while their column was at a halt.

It is a moment every life-respecting person cherishes: like the lone protester in Tiananmen Square, halting a column of tanks with nothing more than his hopelessly vulnerable body, Carson placed herself - her reputation, her failing health - in the path of the juggernaut that, at the time, everyone still blithely referred to as "progress" - and slowed it a little.