Sentence examples for convoy ahead from inspiring English sources
Then the convoy ahead opened fire from 60 to 70 yards away, he said.
Despite being repeatedly driven over by the convoy ahead of him, the device detonated as Pte Hunt negotiated a steep river bank, ripping out the underside of the armoured personnel carrier.
With his first priority to protect his convoy, Woodriff sent an urgent message to Indus, the largest and strongest of the merchant ships, to lead the main body of the convoy ahead eastwards at all speed.
Two hours after the engagement it emerged that the damage had been done by the rear gunner of another US convoy up ahead.
"An American convoy was ahead of us and another convoy was following us, and we were going to pull off of the road, and suddenly the Americans opened fire," said one, Nida Muhammad, a passenger who suffered a shoulder wound.
The advance toward Baghdad on Highway 1, just north of Nasiriya, ground to a halt, and as it began again that morning an ambush lay in wait for the convoy just ahead of me.
Our camp for the night had been the site of an ambush by Iraqi forces on a Marine convoy just ahead of us, and two dead soldiers lay on the side of the road, one facedown in the mud, the other staring at the sky as convoy after convoy of military vehicles passed.
Our new camp for the night had been the site of an ambush by Iraqi forces on a Marine convoy just ahead of us, and two dead soldiers lay on the side of the road, one face down in the mud, the other staring at the sky as convoy after convoy of military vehicles moved by.
The rear ship Cumberland, a veteran of the Battle of Pulo Aura, was unintimidated and returned fire as Blenheim held position so that the convoy passed ahead and the French ships rapidly came up with her.
Rebels in cars escorted the convoy, which moved ahead without observers from the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC).
The convoy stopped short ahead of us, then turned and began firing into residential neighborhoods with heavy machine guns.
