Sentence examples for were escorting from inspiring English sources
verb
To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
Armed police were escorting the money in the next carriage.
But the police were escorting the floats away, even Coatlicue.
By two-fifteen, police, following heightened security measures, were escorting Stuyvesant students out of the school.
He was acquitted in the killing of Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, whom the peacekeepers were escorting.
"We've even arrested members of the Tajikistan special services who were escorting the smugglers.
Soldiers were escorting the freed hostages, apparently to one of the garrisons in the town.
Inside the prison, US military officials were escorting a handpicked group of reporters around.
The agents were escorting two investigators from the Russian federal bailiff service, who were not armed.
He added: "We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe".
Afghan officials said that the police were escorting government officials when the ambush occurred.
They were escorting the 46-year-old on a British Airways flight to Angola on Tuesday night when he collapsed.
