Sentence examples for like troops from inspiring English sources

The girls did not behave like troops; they swayed a bit as Goldwater passed, and sounds came from them not squeals or shrieks but pleasing and ladylike murmurs.

Well, Jonas writes, people in literary cafés talked to each other; people on the Web talk at each other, "like troops of monkeys acting out in nature films".

In the brew bar, which has nowhere to sit or to lean, a long, low counter holds an array of brewing equipment, like troops ready to march: a pair of bulbs for siphon brewing, a compact GS3 espresso machine for pulling single origin shots, gooseneck kettles, beautiful Bee House drippers, and Chemex brewers.

"I would like troops to know that we care all the time but this is the time where families get together and they all cook together, eat together, play together, watch football together.

When a pediatrician recommends that they consult a neurologist in Marseille, the couple and their parents mobilize like troops girding for battle.

The government recognises the valuable contribution ex-servicemen can make in education and that's why there are schemes like Troops to Teachers.

"We'd like troop assistance, we'd like humanitarian assistance, we'd like financial assistance".

"Companies like Troop ID answered First Lady Michelle Obama's appeal to 'Do what you do best' in connecting service members, veterans and military spouses with the resources they deserve.

Set in the 1930s – "before the war," Anderson says, "the storm coming" – their efforts are complicated by the presence of SS-like troops, here known as the ZZ.

The amiable Marty Michael Cyril Creightonn) calms her down and keeps an eye on their son Ira Emma Galvinn), who backed out of a camping trip with the local Boy Scouts-like troop and has set up a tent in the backyard instead.

He reckons that 80percentt of Iraqis welcome the American presence there, while 20percentt would like the troops to leave.