Sentence examples for provide covering from inspiring English sources

Blake was to attack the fortifications and provide covering fire.

A couple of guards with rifles station themselves on rooftops to provide covering fire if necessary.

At the same time, these forces can provide covering fire to Namibian guerrillas who are being pursued into Angola by the South Africans.

Suddenly, half the Mauritanians raced forward across open ground, firing their AK-47 rifles, while the others stayed back to provide covering fire.

Mr. Grass, who had never learned to ride, stayed behind to provide covering fire, then watched as Russian machine guns turned his comrades into a twitching pile of corpses.

After an hour, Leakey ran across the hillside, gained the crest and saw comrades from two machine-gun teams surrounded by about 20 Taliban and unable to provide covering fire.

Apache gunships, Scimitar armoured vehicles and 105mm artillery provided covering fire.

Later, I found an officer ordering his troops to a forward position and providing covering fire as they did so.

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On Wednesday, a military source told reporters at Vedomosti that Russian artillery was providing "covering fire" to Syrian troops in the Homs region.