Sentence examples for troops to spread from inspiring English sources

One wounded soldier, choking back tears, told the two officers he was shot in the lower back just as he warned his troops to spread out, so as not to present an easy target.

The difference between 30,000 and 40,000, military analysts say, is that there might be 5,000 trainers rather than 10,000, and fewer troops to spread flexibly across the country over all, although there would still be a strong concentration in the south.

Indeed, rather than dismantling the military empire that became a hallmark of George W. Bush's presidency, Obama has continued to spread American troops around the globe.

A few seasons ago during New York fashion week, a scandalous rumour began to spread among the troops.

Try to spread your defense-troops near the fort and all along the wall.

The condition is implied to spread outward from the city to troops in the hills, resulting in mass desertion.

The outbreak appeared to spread as a point-source infection between mongoose troops living in close association with humans and human waste; infection spread through towns and the associated national park (2 ).

The New York Times said that battle tanks, vehicles and heavy equipment would be adequate for a brigade-strength force of up to 5,000 troops spread among former Soviet satellite states from the Baltic to the Black Sea and numbering up to 1,200 vehicles including 250 M1A2 tanks.

I want them out," he added in a reference to US troops spread across five bases in the Philippines as part of a security agreement reached with Washington by his predecessor, Benigno Aquino.

But the American troops are spread too thin even to fly regularly over the pipelines, which run for hundreds of miles, Iraqi oil officials have said.

The force may have to be expanded, he added, to as many 25,000 troops spread around the country.