Sentence examples for walked point from inspiring English sources

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Once, during the Persian Gulf war, he walked point for an entire battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division as it moved to attack the Iraqis.

His hot-pink shirt read, "Walked Point in Vietnam to Defend Democracy in 1970, Walked the Mall in Washington to Defend Democracy in 2017".

She is like that: she is that leader; she is one of these women who has really walked point and taken a lot of hits for it.

Unlike his own younger brother Tom — with whom, against standard Army practice on exposing brothers to risk, he walked point in the same infantry unit — he supported that war to the bitter end.

When he found himself driving one of them -- an Army veteran who had walked point in Vietnam -- to an appointment for eyeglasses because the man was too scared to go alone, Mr. Lytle realized that this was not what he wanted to do in life.

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"This used to be the Sears," Simon told me as we walked, pointing to boutiques and high-end chain stores.

One man took his young son by the hand as they walked, pointing out the wreckage and trying to explain.

Hal, walking point, would have turned around and smiled, like, Do you believe we're getting paid for this?

He moves from being a rifleman among riflemen to the guy up front, the one who walks point, the one who sniffs out the enemy.

"I fought with L.U.R.D. in the bush," he said, learning to fire an AK-47, walking point, winning a battlefield commission and a nom de guerre.

By the end of the next page we've had unexplained mentions of "pickers", "Hefty Mart", "Luke 4 5" and Flynne "walking point, for that lawyer in Tulsa".

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