Sentence examples for terrific army from inspiring English sources
"Powell and Baker," Gorman confides, have advised the President to call a halt to the 1991 gulf war without a march on Baghdad: "They send out a terrific army and give a demonstration of up-to-date high-tech warfare that flesh and blood can't stand up to.
He would cut down our terrific army of office holders and civil servants.
P.S.Colombian novelist Evelio Rosero couldn't make it to the packed and Champagne Taittinger-fuelled party at Tate Britain that saw his terrific novel The Armies, in Anne McLean's radiant translation, win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
The walls are lined with military figurines, sporting trophies, photos of rugby teams and a ceremonial cricket bat, and the occupant plays the part of a blimpish ex-army caricature with terrific brio.
William A. Wellman's beautifully shot "Wild Boys of the Road" (1933) has a terrific battle between railroad policemen and a veritable army of teenage hoboes.
Cersei says that with Euron commanding their navy and Jaime commanding their army, the Lannister forces will be terrific, and everyone claps and cheers; Army and Navy, who hate each other, quietly exchange barbs, and Navy tries to taunt Army sexually.
Of the swans, cranes, pelicans, geese, ducks, bitterns, and other birds, one traveller wrote, "After sundown these manifold armies of winged creatures made such a terrific clamour that we could not even hear our own words".
Owen Sheers's terrific Pink Mist, about the effects of war on a group of Bristol friends who join the army, starts at the Bush, in London, tonight.
Another will murmur, "Terrific mood, terrific content, terrific musicianship".
