Sentence examples for huge caravan from inspiring English sources

In 1882 a British mariner watched a huge caravan of slaves toting ivory pass on its way to Zanzibar.

After lunch (Herdwick burgers, of course) we spend the afternoon getting a huge caravan out of his sheep shed.

In the words of Armenian priest Grigoris Balakian: "As the crowd came closer, however, [Litzmayer] realised that it was not an army but a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.

Another common practice is to transport huge caravans of farm workers, labor union members and government employees to rallies of PRI candidates, to give the appearance of broad popular support and electoral invincibility.

In 1996, more than 2,000 evangelical exiles returned to San Juan Chamula in a huge human caravan and began work on the new church.

Pilgrims would assemble, waiting for the annual Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca to set off in one huge joint caravan, protected in numbers from raiding desert tribesmen.

Occasionally clerics issued edicts against the trade because the huge camel caravans transporting 400 bodies at once subjected them to gross indignities along the way.

Forty caravans have been destroyed and another 40 damaged by the heat in a huge blaze at a caravan park.

Footage has shown the huge blaze which destroyed 40 caravans and damaged 40 more at a caravan park.

That's a huge difference, and yet the Grand Caravan handles if not sprightly, certainly with as much grace as any midsize (not to mention full-size) SUV on the market.

Along with camping, caravans have experienced a huge recent increase in popularity, helped in part by marketing drives such as the National Caravan Council's "go green, go caravanning" campaign, which highlights a relative lack of CO2 emissions compared with flights.