Sentence examples for drew soldiers from inspiring English sources

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For two weeks, I drew soldiers in the British camps in Helmand and Kabul.

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In some cases, I.E.D.'s are used as lures to draw soldiers into booby traps.

By the time Erdmann sprinted across the plaza, shouting, his gun drawn, soldiers had cleared the crowd and wrapped Wershow's head wound.

Those fake explosives appear intended to waste the time of explosive-disposal squads or to draw soldiers into an ambush of small-arms fire.

The "march of the makers" and "we are all in this together" sound like slogans on wartime posters by Fougasse (one imagines nicely drawn soldiers marching with spanners clasped to their chests), and while the first might be no more than a pretty thought in a post-industrial world, the second, as Ferdinand Mount writes, sounds "grotesquely implausible … an impudent and rather shaky assertion".

Fake bombs were set to waste the time of explosive disposal squads or to draw soldiers into ambushes with small arms.

He drew a soldier.

In 2003, at the beginning of the Iraq war, Necdet Yilmaz, 37, a Turkish artist and a New Yorker who lives in Bellerose, Queens, drew a soldier stumbling over a rock almost entirely covered with sand.

From this, the Greek historian Xenophon derived the term tactica, the art of drawing up soldiers in array.

Yet since 9/11 we have begun a war that may draw our soldiers into many battles involving intimate killing.

The maps drawn by soldiers in the aftermath of battle serve as grim reminders of that most basic question of wartime intelligence: what lies ahead?

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