Sentence examples for were advancing towards from inspiring English sources

Iraqi troops supported by Iraqi fighter planes were advancing towards the nearby town of Saadiya.

Fighters said they were advancing towards the Anad air base, 40 miles north of Aden, with backing from air strikes.

The light around the curtain was stronger now, a light that seemed somehow to shake within itself even as it strengthened, and it was as if some radiant being were advancing towards the house, over the grey grass, across the mossed yard, great trembling wings spread wide, and waiting for it, waiting, I slipped without noticing into sleep.

Syrian state media meanwhile reported that troops were advancing towards Tal al-Ashari, Jallain and Zaizoun, rebel-held villages in Deraa's western countryside that have agreed to surrender.

By 1944 Soviet armies were advancing towards Hungary.

American forces in the south had captured Lorraine and were advancing towards Mainz, Mannheim, and the Rhine.

Sea ice is advancing towards the berg from the north.

"It's appropriate to limit teenagers' choices, because they are advancing towards independence," Ms. Setzfand said.

Iraqi rebels from Falluja, Tarmiyia, Abu Ghraib and Latifiyia towns are advancing towards Baghdad quickly.

Our fighters are advancing towards Baghdad without any significant resistance by the military forces.

But by then the death toll will almost certainly be advancing towards yet another grim milestone.