Sentence examples for sent to extract from inspiring English sources

On June 6 — D-Day — of 1968, his CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter was sent to extract a team of fellow grunts who were pinned down by the enemy in the mountains seven miles southwest of Khe Sahn.

A four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan had been caught in a mountainside firefight with overwhelming Taliban forces, and the Special Operations helicopter sent to extract them was shot down.

On her first mission, she is sent to extract a scientist named Dr. Caroll from the dataDyne skyscraper.

In "Switzerland," Linney plays real-life author Patricia Highsmith of the "Ripley" novels; Numrich is a publishing world emissary sent to extract another book from her.

Local "unrest" distracted me from Egyptian news in Sofia, where comparatively festive marches "turned violent," as the wire services put it, only once, on the 41st consecutive night of demos, when protesters trapped journalists and politicians in the Parliament building, then stoned a police bus sent to extract them.

Local "unrest" distracted me from Egyptian news in Sofia, where comparatively festive marches "turned violent," as the wire services put it, only once, on the 41st consecutive night of demos, when protesters trapped journalists and politicians in the Parliament building, then stoned a police bus sent to extract them.

His best friend was sent to Beirut to extract the all-important confession.

Finally, resource limitations might not be financial per se but might involve a limited number of staff; for example, suitably trained staff might be used to perform community contact tracing or might be sent to hospitals to extract data from patients' case notes.

In the visual system, for example, sensory signals from the eyes are transmitted to the thalamus and then to the primary visual cortex; inside the cerebral cortex they are sent to areas that extract features such as three-dimensional structure, shape, color, and motion.

To overcome peasant resistance, armed requisition detachments assisted by regular army units were sent to the villages to extract food.

An initial mission to rescue the soldier was aborted on Friday after one of two helicopters sent in to extract him crashed because of foul weather.