Sentence examples for soldiers off from inspiring English sources

Perhaps if he'd been more astute he could have arranged to pay the soldiers off, but he didn't.

Often, the much bigger chimpanzees pull the colobus soldiers off by their tails and slam them to their deaths.

There were dark allusions to putting diabolical plans into action, and taking "toy soldiers" off the shelf.

Gen. Robert L. Halverson, has also let soldiers off for as much as two weeks and approved four-day passes to Budapest.

He withdraws to his quarters on weekends, and said he sometimes felt uncomfortable in large groups, as he was last month when sending several hundred soldiers off to Iraq.

Even its history -- a century of baptisms and wakes, of seeing soldiers off to war and mourning those who did not return -- merits only a paragraph or two in the slim volume of area history.

Barbara Cole, who wrote a history of the Rhodesian SAS, says by contrast that the Rhodesians became close friends with the Fijians they served alongside, and spent far more time socialising with black and mixed-race soldiers off-duty than their British counterparts did.

The purpose of these operations was to mop up the scattered groups of Japanese troops east of the Matanikau and to keep the main body of Japanese soldiers off-balance to prevent them from consolidating their positions so close to the main Marine defenses at Lunga Point.

The American soldiers cordoned off the area and medical evacuation helicopters were seen landing and taking off, Afghan officials said.

"The soldiers got off their tanks and asked for tea.

When Tecumseh died, American soldiers cut off bits of his skin as souvenirs.