Sentence examples for singular troop from inspiring English sources
What has happened to the singular troop?
He calls his co-workers "boss" in the singular and "troops" in the plural, and there is something benignly martial about him.
As such, it ought to take a singular verb, as in "the cavalry troop is advancing".
That collective noun takes the singular verb or pronoun, as in "a troop of Scouts is helping the old lady across the street, doing its good deed, whether she wants to cross the street or not".
However flawed aspects of the military strategy were — three months of aerial bombing with no contingency for ground troops — the Kosovo war was a singular example of American power creating international coöperation on behalf of stability and human rights.
Cut off their heads and burn down their houses, Dessalines told his troops, who went on to win a historic and singular victory over the French Army in 1804.
Four Old World and three New World species met these criteria, including societies varying from small-group, singular cooperative breeders (common marmoset and cotton top tamarin) to large-troop, multi-male, multi-female polygynous mating systems (rhesus, cynomolgus, talapoin, squirrel monkeys, and olive baboon).
As the bombardment continued throughout exchanges, the Belgian's singular exploit provided something to hold on to while José María Olazábal's troops gathered the remnants of their pride and prepared themselves for a final day of hand-to-hand combat.
Singular "therapist," plural "their," singular "her".
