Sentence examples for were detached to from inspiring English sources
In the first place, the German right wing was weakened by the subtraction of 11 divisions; four were detached to watch Antwerp and to invest French fortresses near the Belgian frontier, instead of using reserve and Ersatz troops for this as earlier intended, and seven more regular divisions were transferred to check the Russian advance into East Prussia (see below).
Fiume, Zara, and four destroyers were detached to protect Pola.
Kent and two destroyers were detached to bombard Bardia while returning to Alexandria.
Ten cavalrymen were detached to contain the Japanese while the remainder of the troop continued to Paligmete.
The last two brigades were detached to Latour's direct command along with the divisions Sztáray and Riesch.
Since Georgios Averof was needed to keep the blockade, Psara and four destroyers were detached to hunt down Hamidiye.
The entire squad was detached to work on a string of high-profile arson cases.
While Gertrude was detached to the point of cold, her husband, David Nemerov, was strict to the point of bullying.
I was detached to a medical platoon at Lejeune and told I would rejoin my company when I was fit.
Its modular design is highly adaptable: for example, pump modules can be detached to be kept at different temperatures (Supplementary Fig. 1).
In May 1918, Williams was detached to serve with Mobile Hospital No. 2 and remained with them on the Western Front and, after the Armistice, in Trier, Germany.
