Sentence examples for with a platoon of from inspiring English sources

She was further down the street with a platoon of canvassers, some day-tripping students and local volunteers.

Three years ago, journalists Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington were embedded in Afghanistan with a platoon of the US army.

My point is not to defend Moore, who -- with a platoon of bodyguards and a legal team starring Mario Cuomo -- hardly needs any muscle from me.

"We got quite far talking about one set in World War Two," Roberts quoted Lloyd as saying, "with a platoon of Dad's Army soldiers in a seaside resort.

All season long, we were said to be vulnerable in right field, with a platoon of players who couldn't carry Paulie's used cleats.

With that caution in mind, Daley the younger has packed Florida with a platoon of Democratic lawyers who specialize in the chutes and ladders of modern election law.

Since last week's Ukip surge, in an election that clearly had nothing to do with Europe, a platoon of Conservative backbenchers have taken to the media to call for more focus on an issue which obsesses them, but bores the average voter rigid.

"With 35 men, a platoon of Easy Company routed two German companies of about 300 men," the book says.

Edward Dick's staging of Much Ado has a handsome, Regency-era feel, filled with a Jane Austenish flutter of excitement about a platoon of soldiers with time on their hands.

The vehicles were therefore left with a platoon to the south of Isdud to block a possible Egyptian retreat.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien This is a novel, but I always shelve it with my reportage books, about a platoon of US soldiers in Vietnam, based on his own experiences in the 23rd Infantry Division.