Sentence examples for platoon for the from inspiring English sources

Those two could form a temporary platoon for the Yankees, although Boesch actually has had more success against left-handed pitchers.

He is expected to bat lower in the order as part of a left-field platoon for the Blue Jays, who earlier this week acquired slugger Troy Tulowitzki and Price.

Nevertheless, he started the first game for the Quakers under new coach Bob Folwell, but mixed results left him platooned for the rest of the season.

The front subsequently stagnated with the exception of artillery, air, and sniper activity and clashes between reconnaissance platoons for the next several months.

"We don't have the same amenities they had in previous deployments, say to Iraq," said Sgt. First Class Shawn Tiarks, platoon sergeant for the troop's second platoon.

He was known to break down in tears when recalling an incident when he was admonished by a member of the Korengal platoon for shooting video footage at the moment one of the soldiers was killed – the pay-off, one might say, for spending a lifetime shooting war.

Medically retired as a captain, Mr. Meehan spent 15 months in Iraq as a tank platoon leader for the U.S. Army.

Michael Dyer, 26, who spent 12 months in 2008-9 as a platoon leader for the Fourth Infantry Division in Iraq.

Of Keppinger, who along with Chavez chose not to become a potential third-base platoon player for the Yankees, Cashman said: "Jeff Keppinger can play in New York.

On Wednesday evening, General Manager Brian Cashman volunteered that Rodriguez had become a $30-million-a-year 30-million-a-year 30-million-a-year 30-million-a-yearer many hours or days that would entail.

Frank McGuinness's 1985 drama about an Irish Protestant platoon fighting for the British in World War I is no exception to the war play that pales in comparison to the real thing.