Sentence examples for like a platoon from inspiring English sources

Aleksei Khudyakov, their leader, issued final instructions like a platoon leader briefing his soldiers for a raid.

Ryan said Friday that he would like to use several players at the position, "almost like a platoon situation in the outfield".

It sounds like a platoon of ninja bumblebees with a bad mobile signal have left you a 45-minute answerphone message.

Only short clips from the show are available online, as in this classic snippet from her chicken episode, in which Julia introduces a troop of birds of varying shapes and sizes like a platoon officer calling her men to attention.

Mayor Daley, who died nearly a decade ago, ruled Chicago for 21 years, usually with quiet moves behind the scenes, lining up support and isolating the opposition so that the Council majority operated like a platoon of steamrollers.

But Climb Wyoming's real core insight is female solidarity — that the group, trained and forged together more like a platoon than a class, will become an anchor of future success.

They seem to think a platoon of like-minded paranoids armed with assault weapons is a good match for the United States military.

I was most struck by the countless threads devoted to comparing "war wounds," a case of one-upmanship that felt like watching boxers or a platoon of Marines.

When they let us in to talk to the team it was like going to interview a platoon immediately after half their men had been killed ("Tell me, how exactly did you feel when the landmines started going off?").

In my mind is a stream of planktonlike creatures, possibilities that are on standby like a creative platoon.

We are kind of like a large platoon when we all gather and that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.