Sentence examples for column of vehicles from inspiring English sources
At the combined air-operations centre, the Americans want to destroy a concentration of enemy forces, or a column of vehicles, with cluster bombs, which rain bomblets over a wide area.
It was after the dust had settled that the general decided to walk - leading a column of vehicles to the next camp along the road.
The OSCE said its observers had seen a column of vehicles and heavy guns in rebel-held areas around Donetsk. "More than 40 trucks and tankers" were seen on a road east of Makiivka, the monitors said, adding that 19 were large vehicles towing howitzer artillery systems and "containing personnel with dark green uniforms without insignia".
The column of vehicles crossing the border was not recorded.
There cannot be an easier target imagined than an identified column of vehicles, driving an arterial road, in the middle of a desert. .
Indeed, the Iraqis are not shrinking from the fight: columns of vehicles carrying more paramilitary forces were heading south tonight from Baghdad to join the fray, according to American officials.
The risk of air attacks will make it difficult for Isis to continue to engage in semi-conventional warfare using columns of vehicles packed with heavily armed fighters to storm government-held positions in Syria and Iraq.
As columns of vehicles crossed the border and troops arrived to happy homecomings last week, Mr. Obama released a restrained written statement and made a one-sentence reference at a pair of fund-raisers.
Soon a column of military vehicles bore down through an underpass.
A column of American vehicles rumbled into view, two Bradleys, a Humvee, and a troop truck.
