Sentence examples for comrades down from inspiring English sources

I have since discovered how badly the army let Tom and his comrades down, and how shamelessly it covered up its misdeeds.

Glenton's mother, Sue, said: "They have let Joe down and they have let his comrades down.

Firefighter Gallagher was the first to follow his comrades down the hallway, crawling under the smoke.

As one of the leading writers on combat motivation in World War II, S.L.A. Marshall, put it in his book Men Against Fire: "No man wants to die; what induces him to risk his life bravely?" It is not "belief in a cause"; "when the chips are down, a man fights to help the man next to him .… Men do not fight for a cause but because they do not want to let their comrades down".

On 30 June 1916 2Lt Percy Boswell, like many of his comrades, sat down to write a letter.

But when he dies without speaking, his comrades cast down their faces in frustrated surprise before wandering aimlessly away.

As Ms. Durbin spoke, her three comrades peered down from the metal catwalk around the 45,000-gallon water drum.

He mentioned a traumatic incident in which he had seen scores of comrades mowed down by regime soldiers outside Aleppo.

The narrative, he noted, was confined almost totally to combat action in "a succession of desperate air battles" in which the author saw his comrades "shot down, blown apart and burned to cinders in flaming planes".

Just a few days before Pfeifer and his comrades trekked down to D.C. with Stewart, another 9/11 responder, John McKee, died from a brain tumor linked to his service at ground zero following the 2001 attacks.

His beefier buddy grabbed a tenor sax, and their more compact comrade sat down at the drums.