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Example sentences for "troop"

Lexicographically close words:
trone; trong; trono; troo; trooly; troope; trooped; trooper; troopers; troopes
  1. The Eleventh infantry Regiment and band, with Troop H of the Sixth United States Cavalry, then marched through the streets and formed in the square opposite the palace.

  2. Rizal, hunted hard, attempted to escape in disguise on a Spanish troop ship carrying discharged soldiers to Spain, but was detected while on the Red Sea, returned to Manila and shot to death.

  3. The 11th infantry regiment and band with Troop H, of the 6th United States cavalry then marched through the streets and formed in the square opposite the palace.

  4. As they marched through Corbridge, this gallant troop drew their swords.

  5. Lord Kenmure had a troop of gentlemen with him, the command of which he gave to the Hon.

  6. When Lochiel from his hut beheld a party approaching, all armed, he concluded that a troop of militia were coming to seize him.

  7. The chief glory of this short but important action is due to Macdonald of Keppoch; the affair was over when Lochiel with a troop of Camerons arrived, took charge of the prisoners, and carried them to his house at Achnacarry.

  8. Having collected a troop of two hundred and fifty men, she marched at the head of it to the camp at Glenfinnin.

  9. The Captain resolved to let the troop camp in one of those vast clearings, so many of which are found in these parts, and are formed by the fall of trees overthrown by a hurricane, or dead of old age.

  10. Although the troop was some distance off at the moment, still at this signal the riders stopped as if the feet of their horses had suddenly become embedded in the ground.

  11. It was a troop of the conspirators coming, who, finding that William had fled, had set off immediately in pursuit.

  12. The whole troop seconded this proposal by acclamation.

  13. Contrary to his mother's instructions, Alfred took with him quite a troop of Norman soldiers.

  14. Robert had a troop of wild, desperate, and unmanageable outlaws, without authority, without money, without a sense of justice on their side.

  15. The troop returned with Tostig's answer to Harold's lines, and the battle almost immediately began.

  16. Accordingly, in the middle of the night, the desperate troop mounted their horses and rode away.

  17. A troop of the fugitives had rendezvoused in Combe Wood, and were dislodged thence yesterday by the light horse.

  18. When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his best horses twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.

  19. The clerical troop brought along a boat upon their wagons in order to cross the river.

  20. The troop of Frankish soldiers rent the air with their clamor: "Brunhild!

  21. If you will not submit to the orders of the Bishop of Chalon,' the basilica captain cried out to us in a triumphant voice, 'my troop will enter the Valley and reduce it to obedience by force of arms.

  22. At the hour appointed the king appeared on horseback, and found the troop all mounted and ready.

  23. A battalion of Guards was also stationed at the palace, the garrison in the castle was kept in readiness for action, and a troop of dragoons accompanied the Ministers wherever they went.

  24. At five in the morning Cobbet and his troop arrived, and the king was informed that he must arise and accompany it.

  25. Hearing that Captain Unton Crook was after them with a troop of horse, and seeing no chance of a rising, they quitted the town about three o'clock, and marched through Dorsetshire into Devonshire.

  26. Amongst a troop of mistresses, Lucy Walters, or Barlow, as she was called, the mother of the afterwards celebrated Duke of Monmouth, was the most notorious.

  27. On Monday his troop proceeded to bury him with military honours.

  28. But the alarm was given, a troop of soldiers appeared, cleared the street, and seized half a dozen of the ringleaders.

  29. As for resistance, the charging troop met with nothing worse than the yellings and a scattering fusillade in air.

  30. I guessed the compass of it to be something more than an acre; not greatly more, since the fire at the troop camp lighted all its boundaries.

  31. But now the leader of the attacking troop speedily brought order with a word of command; and when his men fell back to post themselves as vedettes among the trees, the officer dismounted to uncover courteously and to bow low to the lady.

  32. They both ran with a slow swinging leap, like the racking gait, half pace, half gallop, of a well-trained troop horse.

  33. A light-horse troop was surrounding the manor house.

  34. You are my troop commander, Captain Jennifer.

  35. Every vestige of the camp save the glowing skeletons of the troop shelters had disappeared, and the swarded savanna was become a blackened chaos-blot on the fair woodland scene.

  36. Our troop led the pursuit; and this brings me to an incident in which thy old chronicler--figuring in the histories as an unnamed sergeant--had his share.

  37. King at Manchester, where the townspeople had undertaken to furnish a troop of fifty men at their own expense, and where many volunteers might be expected.

  38. In the ala each troop had its own flag carried by the signifer turmae, but there seems also to have been a regimental standard, the bearer of which was known as the vexillarius alae.

  39. The movement of troop trains was always a special target for Boche bombing planes, and several times during the night Fritz tried to "get" us.

  40. Ravigny is a small town but an important railroad center from which troop trains were re-routed to various points on the front line.

  41. All drivers knew the route to Ravigny, to which point all troop trains had been dispatched under sealed orders.

  42. With military precision our boys, relieved by these French and Chinese troops, poured into the town and were quickly loaded on the troop trains.

  43. Troop trains had a never waning interest for civilian and soldier alike.

  44. Greek: kai ek thekoue]), "the royal merchants used to fetch a troop of horses at a price.

  45. His right hand holds a sword;[524] his left grasps by the hair a long line which passes round the necks of a troop of thirty-eight mean and diminutive Jewish captives.

  46. Then there can be dimly perceived the outlines of a large, high room and the grey silhouettes of Old Women in strange garments who resemble a troop of grey, hiding mice.

  47. Archie descended with his troop from the craigs, and chose a spot where they would be apart from the others.

  48. The other leader was Sir John Hazelrig, governor of Lanark; behind them rode a troop of armed men, twenty in number.

  49. In the course of the afternoon Archie saw his chief and begged leave to take his troop away for some time, telling Sir William of the cruel treatment which the Kerrs had dealt at Glen Cairn, and his determination to retaliate for the deed.

  50. They were under the command of John Fenwick, the same officer who had been at the head of the troop by which Wallace's father had been killed.

  51. George Seaton, the fifth Earl of Wintoun, was another of those noblemen who raised a troop of horse, and engaged, from the very first commencement of the rebellion, in its turmoils.

  52. He was related by a former marriage between the families to the Earl of Wintoun, whose troop was commanded by Captain James Dalzell, the brother of Lord Carnwath.

  53. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky.

  54. A man in my troop kept touching his cap to the Germans, saying "Third-class shots, third-class shots.

  55. The first troop of Prussians came into the village this afternoon on the pretense of having a horse shod.

  56. There an official whose name I do not know took me to a troop train and made a place for me in the brake box.

  57. I had innocently blundered into one of the most important troop movements of the war, but how many and where they were coming from or where they were going to I pledged myself not to disclose.

  58. With "constant reader," I boarded a troop transport at Longuyon and crawled on through the night to the front.

  59. At 9 o'clock in the morning the troop transport stopped for refreshments at the French village of X, and here a funny phenomenon was witnessed.

  60. The detraining stations are of sufficient length to accommodate the longest troop train (ten cars) easily, and they generally have at least four sidings apart from the through up-and-down lines.

  61. At the request of the mutineers--who treated the Governor with all courtesy--he remained at the station until the troop train arrived empty.

  62. A certain Hottentot was once travelling with a Bushwoman and her child, when they perceived at a distance a troop of wild horses.

  63. Although the evening meal had been arranged for on the troop decks, very few attended.

  64. Troop Deck Sergeants, were responsible for the cleanliness and order of their respective quarters.

  65. A current of tension ran down the troop with as much reality as a current of water runs down hill.

  66. Metz is the heart of the German organization on the western front: the railroad center, the supply station, the troop dépôt.

  67. All the things we are said to have done in Belgium--" But here the troop of prisoners was hurried to one side, and I never saw the man again.

  68. Billy's back, with a troop of cavalry, and they sent that trumpeter on before to find us.

  69. Seeing troop after troop of blue-shirts spurring over the divide and down, the Cheyennes, every one of their eighteen hundred, turned in flight.

  70. His advance of scouts and one troop of cavalry were just in time to help save Adobe Walls from yet another attack by Comanches and Kiowas.

  71. This night Lieutenant Charles King of K troop was in charge of the outposts stationed toward the south-east, and covering the trail from the reservation.

  72. Everybody liked Lieutenant Frederick Sibley, Troop E, Second Cavalry; many of the older officers remembered his father, General C.

  73. A troop of this sort passed the windows of the room in which Julia and I were sitting at our morning meal.

  74. Liverpool will “nab” it, the moat will be stoutly bridged, a troop of electric cars will storm across, and the quiet little gathering among the trees will be rudely broken up and submerged.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    army; band; battalion; battery; bevy; body; brigade; bunch; cabal; cadre; cast; clique; cohort; colony; column; company; complement; contingent; corps; coterie; covey; crew; crowd; detachment; detail; division; drift; drive; drove; faction; file; fleet; flock; gang; garrison; gather; group; grouping; herd; hoof; host; junta; kennel; mob; movement; number; organization; outfit; pace; pack; party; phalanx; platoon; pod; posse; pride; rally; rank; regiment; salon; school; section; shoal; skulk; sloth; squad; squadron; stable; step; string; team; train; tread; tribe; trip; troop; troupe; unit; walk; wing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    troops could; troops from; troops under; troops were