Sentence examples for while marching through from inspiring English sources

He wrote the poem – which today is the state song of Maryland – in one night in response to a specific event, when the 6th Massachusetts Regiment fired on civilians while marching through Baltimore.

John Lewis, who endured the blows of billy clubs while marching through Selma with Martin Luther King Jr., switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama only after his constituents in Georgia voted overwhelmingly for the young senator.

When, for instance, black troops sang "John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave" while marching through the streets of Charleston, S.C., William Lloyd Garrison, for decades the North's leading abolitionist, broke down and wept, exclaiming, "Only listen to that in Charleston streets!" Then again, just as the song could support many different interpretations, so could the war itself.

The people photographed have camouflage and other military kit, while marching through the woods carrying guns.

You smell like sweat and all of the spilled drinks that you couldn't avoid while marching through the dancing masses.

On 17 September 1176 Manuel was decisively defeated by Seljuk Sultan Kilij Arslan II at the Battle of Myriokephalon (in highlands near the Tzibritze pass), in which his army was ambushed while marching through the narrow mountain pass.

In turn, Morsi's opponents claim his armed supporters have started other fatal fights – in particular while marching provocatively through neighbourhoods south of Tahrir Square, the cradle of anti-Morsi dissent.

Diego Simeone's low-budget team have exceeded all expectations, maintaining their title challenge while also marching through the Champions League, in which they already have one foot in the quarter-finals after beating AC Milan 1-0 in the last-16 first leg at the San Siro.

"We're improving," shouted rosy-cheeked flutist Laura Weideman, 16, between notes as the band played "There's No Place Like Nebraska" while marching down Eldora Avenue through Weeping Water's tiny business section.

Emperor Severus reproaches his son Caracalla for having plotted to murder him while they were marching through a pass in the Scottish highlands.

Few works from the Civil War capture the horror and pathos of the front-line soldier as well as Watkins' reminiscence of that day: While we were marching through a cornfield they opened their war dogs upon us … from one end of the line to the other seemed to be a solid sheet of blazing smoke and fire.