Sentence examples for vast convoy from inspiring English sources

Hamid Karzai and his siblings, together with hundreds of other relatives and tribespeople, defied the Taliban by bringing his body across the border in a vast convoy.

In the vast convoy of vehicles that rumble through New York every day, Zu Rong Li's delivery truck is indistinguishable from the rest until he pulls to a curb and leaves the engine running and the driver's seat empty while he takes a photograph.

She looked very pale and, at one point, even unwell as she sat outside the Hopital Auberge de l'Amour Redempteur de Dangbo, an hour's drive in a vast convoy of cars with motorcycle outriders, flashing lights and sirens, from Benin's principal city, Cotonou.

Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.

At the entry of the Bredjing camp the gendarme emerged from a makeshift guardhouse, lifted the gate pole across the road, and waved the convoy past, into a vast panorama of tents and mud-brick habitations, rising and falling away into the distance with the undulations of the landscape.

While Indian and Chinese merchants docked their ships on the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, it was the Arab merchants who moved goods on their boats or convoys of camels, using a vast network of land and sea routes to re-export merchandise across the ancient world.

With the U-boats revealing their positions, the convoys could dodge them in the vast Atlantic waste.

The convoys set out from North America loaded with vast cargoes of essential supplies for Britain, but the U-boats' torpedoes were sinking so many of the ships that Churchill's analysts said Britain would soon be starving.

McLeod's truck was at the head of one of two small convoys driving door to door on the vast reserve to rescue any strays or pets that families can't afford to care for.

When the team arrived home at Kabul International Airport on Thursday afternoon, the traffic jams put to shame the vast ones that occur when President Hamid Karzai travels by convoy through the streets.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan was surely hoping for a little of the same when he had his night convoy of murder investigators sweep their headlights across the vast prairie in last year's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.