Sentence examples for village clearing from inspiring English sources

The regiment, being held in reserve, took no part in the battle, but was afterwards left in charge of the village, clearing the dead and collecting war materials.

We eat our sausage sandwiches in a village clearing and watch the children coming back from school.

In a village clearing, three young men, dressed in bright masks and white robes, pranced and danced to the sound of drums for the surrounding crowd.

The state's agents razed villages, clearing the countryside.

In fact, the government gives plausible reasons for cooping up so many that they must be screened for remnants of the odious LTTE, and their villages cleared of mines.

The Thailand Burma Border Consortium, the main NGO looking after the refugees, estimates that conflict has made a further 70,000 people homeless in Kayin (formerly Karen) state in the past year, with 113 villages cleared.

"If you ran an old-school email network off those, it'd be quite handy and expandable piece by piece as you contacted neighbouring villages, cleared the zombies out, etc.

Drawn by the hope of a fresh start, they found themselves pushed abroad by poverty, by rapacious new landlords who wanted villages cleared for sheep and deer, and by overcrowding.

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham said last year that more than 1,000 Christians had been killed, entire villages cleared, and dozens of churches and Christian centres damaged or destroyed.

As a result, established households in these villages clear less forest land than established households in more remote villages.

Combined army and police units have been shelling and burning villages, steadily clearing the area of villagers and Kosovo Liberation Army fighters who have tried to resist.