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Example sentences for "little groups"

  • For months past our guns had been pounding them so that they were mostly battered down, and only held here and there by little groups of men who dug themselves in.

  • Little groups of Highland officers and men refused to retreat.

  • But the fiercest fighting came after that against another series of those concrete forts, among them the Pommern Redoubt, where separate actions had again to be made by little groups of men under platoon commanders.

  • Men dropped at the corner of every lane and alley; corpses scattered here and there upon the pavement, singly or in little groups, made splotches of dark color, hideously splashed with red.

  • The German prisoners and wounded, in their field-gray uniforms, dirty with mud, descend the hill in little groups, their arms raised.

  • The enemy surrenders to us in little groups.

  • As one goes up the Nile, many little human settlements are to be seen, little groups of houses of dried mud, where the whitened dome of the modest house of prayer is surmounted by a cross and not a crescent.

  • Here and there are people on their knees, little groups in robe and turban, scattered fortuitously upon the red of the carpets, and almost lost in the midst of the sumptuous solitude.

  • Little groups of Belgian soldiers came up wistfully and lingered round us as though liking the sight of us, and the sound of our English speech, and the gallantry of those girls who went into the firing-lines to rescue their wounded.

  • But through the swing doors came two by two, or in little groups, enough people to rob these lighted rooms of loneliness.

  • It would come like a refrain at the end of sentences spoken by little groups of men and women sitting outside the cafés and reading every issue of those innumerable newspapers which flung out editions at every hour.

  • Fresh troops were scaling the cliffs; soldiers advanced up the green slope above, singly and in little groups.

  • Yet although at the very moment of this strange occurrence no one had had much to say, when the girls gathered in little groups aside, their tongues swung back and forward with great energy.

  • There were perhaps a dozen girls standing about in little groups of three or four.

  • The girls were making up little groups to go to the game with youths of their acquaintance as escorts, under the chaperonage of older people.

  • The roughest and most daring took charge of little groups, and, with these, they cheered, cursed, and leaped into the trench at the edge of the green plateau.

  • But it was Bill's keen eyes which had first seen little groups of the enemy ahead.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little aside; little below; little cousin; little crowd; little daughter; little deprecatory; little distance from the; little enough; little grim; little house; little less; little longer; little melted; little mouse; little olive; little panel; little patience; little people; little practice; little purpose; little puzzled; little reflection; little solution; little spirits; little star; more probable