Sentence examples for rifle green from inspiring English sources
noun
A dark green colour, like that of the rifleman uniform.
The tradition was continued by British Rifle Regiments who adopted rifle green for the Napoleonic Wars.
The "battle dress" style woolen air force blue uniform was changed to a CF rifle green safari style uniform.
For example, two Napoleonic War skirmishing units of the British Army, the 95th Rifle Regiment and the 60th Rifle Regiment, were the first to adopt camouflage in the form of a rifle green jacket, while the Line regiments continued to wear scarlet tunics.
I quickly rifled the green college file the college counselor's assistant had left on my chair that morning.
One of the most prominent flags replacing the Star of David at Beaufort is yellow, with a fist hoisting a rifle over broad green Arabic letters spelling Hezbollah.
They ranged from little pistols to large rifles including his prohibited and soon-to-be-illegal-in-Canada (but not if he gets his way) Swiss Arms Classic Green rifle.
Teammates and reporters came by to watch Farnsworth skillfully wield a green plastic rifle at unsuspecting deer and possum.
The US military, who had green-jacketed rifle units in the Civil War, were quick to follow the British, going khaki in the same year.
These stories include a October 20 report titled "CAPTURE THE FLAG!" in which Smith boasts: "I snatched a Hezbollah flag -- the yellow banner with the green fist and rifle -- from one of the enemy's strongholds in Lebanon recently.
Elite riot police with thigh-length black leg guards, helmeted Revolutionary Guards in green uniforms and rifle-touting snipers composed a panoply of menace.
