Sentence examples for shock troop from inspiring English sources
noun
A military formation created to lead an attack.
Carroll has proved his value as a shock troop.
Members of La Barbe, a shock troop of French feminists set up in 2008, infiltrate male-dominated meetings wearing beards and derisively congratulate the men on their supremacy.Many applaud Femen's daring.
But ample evidence suggests that the Fatemiyoun Brigade is actually a shock troop trained and coordinated by Iran.
By 1972, the Portuguese military had changed its strategy, adapting the British/American search and destroy operations utilising small shock troop sweeps.
The Strachwitz Battle Group annihilated the Soviet 8th Army shock troop wedge at the western end of the Krivasoo Bridgehead on 26 March.
Rothbard had pointed out in his 'Origins of the Welfare State' that progressives had evolved from elitist Gilded Age pietist Protestants that wanted to bring a secularized version of millennialism under a welfare state, which was spearheaded by a "shock troop of Yankee protestant and Jewish women and lesbian spinsters".
Marines are the best shock troops.
Now they are the shock troops of the bourgeoisie.
"He would call us shock troops," Chibeza said.
"The police are the shock troops of gentrification," Brooks said.
The likes of Stephenson, Morse and Goodyear were the shock troops of the Industrial Revolution.
