Sentence examples for general inspecting from inspiring English sources

Max entered the kitchen with hisarms crossed, marching purposefully, like a general inspecting his troops.

Ron preferred to stand a few yards off the orderly line, like a general inspecting his troops.

Major Adams recalled in her memoir that when a general inspecting her battalion was told that not all the women would be present, since some were working and others sleeping after a night shift, he responded, "I'm going to send a white first lieutenant down here to show you how to run this unit".

In general, inspecting the relationship across species between the size of the tRNA pool and the number of detected switching events revealed a modest correlation, and in particular species with same size of tRNA repertoire manifested tRNA switching to different extents (not shown).

Civil corporations are visited by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice; but the internal affairs of ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations are, in general, inspected and controlled by a private visitor...

The general inspected the position.

The two generals inspected fighter and bomber units in the area, and agreed to attack the Japanese convoy in the Vitiaz Strait.

"This is your new tribe," he said to an Iraqi soldier, an ethnic Kurd, who stood in line as General Petraeus inspected the troops.

Elsewhere were Family Dollar, Dollar Mart, Dollar Tree and Dollar Zone stores.On a whim, I stopped into a Dollar General to inspect the mundane wonders of free trade.

The former general then inspected troops in the plaza, decked out in the colours of Nigeria's green and white flag, from the back of an open vehicle and waved at supporters who raced forward to record the moment on their phones.

Salamaua was intended to become a large base for the Allied forces in the region, but when Lieutenant General Edmund Herring inspected the area immediately following its capture it was deemed not suitable.