Sentence examples for through a platoon from inspiring English sources

Signals couldn't be allowed to change midway through a platoon, or it would leave stragglers behind.

Mr. Chan has been forbidden by his father to indulge in a style of martial arts known as "drunken boxing," meaning he carefully drinks just enough alcohol to make himself limber but not so much as to make himself awkward, and then can bob and weave, somewhat comically, through a whole platoon of bad guys.

Every time a platoon from 1-32 pathrough townugh they, they stopped to chat with storekeepers and to buy trinkets and candy to give to the street urchins.

At Urus-Kert, Captain Sokolov organized the final defense of the hilltop, aided by a few soldiers from a platoon that had broken through rebel lines.

10 P.M. (13) ARMADILLO (2011) Janus Metz follows a platoon of Danish soldiers through Helmand Province in Afghanistan in a film that has a lot in common with "Restrepo," the war documentary by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

It was before a platoon of little-known rookies rose through the depth chart to quietly help lift the team through the playoffs.

He had joined the Marines through officer candidate school the next year and served as a platoon leader in combat in Vietnam.

Today, a platoon of National Guard soldiers walked shoulder to shoulder through the slanting rain.

The operator drives the first vehicle of a platoon and the other vehicles follow the leader through automatic distancing.

"They've put us through every training situation imaginable," said Sgt. First Class Max McLaughlin, 39, a platoon sergeant from Olympia, Wash.

A platoon of rebel soldiers encounters an AT-AT, stomping through the lushly detailed forest; they call in a Y-Wing airstrike which incinerates the giant transporter.