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Discover LudwigThe phrase "form an army" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to create or establish a military force. Example: After years of conflict, the king decided to form an army to protect his kingdom from invasion.
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Now, they form an army around Osama bin Laden.
We can help them form an army," he said on public television over the weekend.
They are teaching millions of impressionable children to form an army of miniature critics.
Muḥammad ʿAlī then decided to form an army of slave troops dependent wholly upon himself and trained by European instructors.
Bonnie Ford of ESPN.com offers this take on many of the Games' career Olympians who form an army of familiar faces.
In May 1976 the seven emirates agreed to merge their armed forces, and in November of that year a provision was added to the constitution that gave the federal government the right to form an army and purchase weapons.
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Mr Ruto formed an army prior to the elections to "go to war for him", the prosecution has alleged.
So the CNDP today forms an army within an army, maintaining many of their old positions as well as expanding their control to mineral-rich areas.
Farmers brought water in bowsers; students formed an army of volunteers and worked particularly in the poorer suburbs in the east, knee-deep in liquefaction.
With the advent of World War II, he secured British assistance in forming an army of Ethiopian exiles in the Sudan.
There was not any occasion that I'm aware where a colony specifically formed an army or a unit to go out and run a war with Indigenous Australians.
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