Sentence examples for sappers of from inspiring English sources

Ronan Bennett was the first to follow these pioneer sappers of dramatic convention, in his series of 10-minute television drama plays, Ten Days To War, shown across a week on BBC2 in March, in the slot usually kept for the opening item of Newsnight.

The greatest achievement was the firing in June 1917 by British sappers of more than 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) of explosive, placed in 16 chambers 100 feet (30 m) deep, which completely obliterated Messines Ridge in Belgium and inflicted 20,000 German casualties.

In support were the sappers of the 2/7th Field Company and the 24 25-pounders of the 2/6th Field Regiment.

The bridge in the film was reconstructed twice by sappers of the Spanish army after being rigged for on-camera explosive demolition.

Sappers of 619 Independent Field Company also moved in to begin clearing the minefields surrounding the beach, so as to free up the advance south towards Carpiquet.

The selected troops were volunteer parachutists chosen from the sappers of 9th Field Company (Airborne) Royal Engineers and 261st Field Park Company (Airborne) Royal Engineers attached to 1st Airborne Division, because the only parachute-trained Royal Engineers unit in existence at the time, 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, was already deployed in North Africa with 1st Parachute Brigade.

You can take sappers off of friendly Engineer buildings if he manages to get himself killed.

Meiklejohn led a small group of sappers, members of the 24th and Captain Holland, Climo from the earlier charge, and Lieutenant Manley to recapture the ammunition dump; Holland and the General were wounded, and the group severely depleted as it twice failed to retake the dump, but a third attempt proved successful.

This included three companies of miners, nine companies of sappers, a battalion of mariners, another of sailors, four companies of pontonniers (bridge builders), four companies of pioneers (engineers), two companies of artillery, and park's own medical detachment, close to 5,000 men.

Good ­riddance, summer, you sapper of energy, you bringer-on of headaches.

Willie Pastrano, the light-heavyweight champion he was training when Ali first called on him, had a heavyweight appetite for sex, especially before a fight, which was conventionally considered a sapper of leg strength.