Sentence examples for massed troops from inspiring English sources

Most recently, both India and Pakistan have massed troops on their mutual border.

Because they dispersed widely upon leaving the gun, the projectiles were especially effective at short range against massed troops.

Rows of spotlights and dry ice highlighted the technical brilliance of the massed troops of English National Ballet, while obscuring their faces.

Volley fire against massed troops delivered effective projectiles out to 200 yards, but at 300 yards balls from muzzle-loaders lost most of their lethality.

Velázquez exposes the delusion of this civilised exchange with sombre irony: the wartorn Dutch landscape spreads out behind the massed troops, smoke rising from distant farms.

As Macbeth achieves power through a military coup, we see projections of massed troops marching through what looks like Red Square.

Although he lived through some of history's darkest days (and there are photos of massed S.S. troops to prove it), the images that defined his career fairly explode with joie de vivre.

The absence of massed U.S. troops in the north didn't affect "Shock and Awe".

Assault after assault of massed Chinese troops kept up the attack throughout the night, but the strong defence of the Australians on the brigade's right flank held them back, before they turned their attention to the Canadians the following day.

Thousands of people fled their homes in northern Gaza on Monday after an Israeli warning of intensified air strikes and Israel has also massed thousands of troops on the border, amid speculation of a possible ground invasion.

Ignoring a key point of the agreement, Russia still refuses to let Ukrainian border guards patrol the border; Russian troops remain massed there, as well as covertly present inside Ukraine.