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Example sentences for "large detachment"

  • They sent on a large detachment of their army, under the command of the Prince of Hesse, to watch ours.

  • On the nineteenth the French retired without noise, in the night, towards Manheim, where they repassed the river without any interruption from the imperial general; then he sent off a large detachment to Flanders.

  • A large detachment of soldiers are already across the Graustark frontier.

  • Prince Gabriel himself had been seen in the northern part of his domain, accompanied by a large detachment of picked soldiers.

  • A large detachment of men has been sent to meet you at Labbot.

  • They contained a large detachment of grenadiers, rangers, and light infantry, admirably equipped, and commanded by Major-general Howe.

  • On the 18th of June he was joined by General Arnold with three hundred men, the garrison of Montreal, who had crossed at Longueil just in time to escape a large detachment of the enemy.

  • He had under him a large detachment of French and American troops, and the work was conducted with such silence and secrecy in a night of extreme darkness, that the enemy were not aware of it until daylight.

  • A large detachment sent by General Carleton, sallied out of Palace Gate after Morgan had passed it, surprised and captured Dearborn and the guard, and completely cut off the advanced party.

  • The only noxious one is the sand-fly, very numerous here, and almost as troublesome as the musquitoe; for we found no reptile here, except two or three sorts of small harmless lizards.

  • This contest, however, did not last above half a minute, before one of them gave it up.

  • They seemed to be girls of spirit, and would certainly have given each other a good drubbing, if two old women had not interposed to part them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    greatly admired; large army; large block; large bodies; large body; large class; large crowd; large detachment; large diameter; large dinner; large estate; large excess; large income; large majority; large percentage; large stones; large sum; large tracts; large trees; large vessel; large volume; large yellow; largely grown; larger portion; larger quantities; least not