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Example sentences for "with instructions"

  • I have seen your despatch in which you say, "I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field, with instructions to put himself south of the enemy, and follow him to the death.

  • Unless General Hunter is in the field in person, I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field, with instructions to put himself south of the enemy and follow him to the death.

  • Hussars, with instructions to move round the northern extremity of Talana, and report if it were possible to take ground on the flank from which the enemy's retreat or, at least, his loose ponies might be threatened.

  • Major-General Babington sent the 9th Lancers also eastwards, with instructions to force their way along the river to Brown's Drift and thus turn the enemy's left.

  • On the next morning he sent the bulk of his command across the river again, with instructions to remain near and guard the ferry.

  • A scouting party was sent immediately on in the direction of Frankfort, with instructions to drive in the pickets after daybreak, and to rejoin us at Versailles.

  • He almost directly afterward sent the bulk of it to the Shelbyville and Nashville road, with instructions to encamp about twenty miles from Nashville, and picket and scout the adjacent country, and all the neighboring roads.

  • This force required constant watching, and scouts were kept in sight of the encampment at all hours of the twenty-four, with instructions to fire upon the pickets as often as each detail was relieved.

  • Similar notification was sent to Admiral Dewey, with instructions to cease hostilities and raise the blockade at Manila.

  • Accordingly he sent a messenger to General Chaffee, with instructions to take the position by a charge.

  • The course was then changed, and the Dixie was sent to warn General Brooke, who was on his way with his army from the United States, with instructions to meet General Miles at Cape San Juan.

  • To each lord he assigned a defined section of the territory and a certain number of dependents, with instructions to form a town, to be named after its founder.

  • Sir Harry) Johnston was sent out to Mozambique as British consul, with instructions to travel in the interior and report on the troubles that had arisen with the Arabs on Lake Nyasa and with the Portuguese.

  • In June Clinton returned to New York, leaving Cornwallis in command, with instructions to reduce North Carolina also.

  • He wrote at once to Christiern, with instructions to enter Sweden and inflict punishment on those who had thus set at naught the papal power.

  • You will send your caravan out of the city beforehand, with instructions to wait on the road a mile beyond Amber Bridge.

  • I gave the pendant to Guru Singh--with instructions.

  • The Peers sent a copy of George Jeffrey's examination to the Lord Mayor, with instructions that he should both give an account of what he had already done in the business and also prosecute it farther.

  • There had been an express to London in consequence, with instructions to the Commissioners to do their best, by every form of entreaty and remonstrance, to avert the dreaded catastrophe.

  • Fish was to go back over the mountains to Panguitch that night, with instructions to come out and meet us, in case Lee should start away from Panguitch.

  • During the winter Joseph the Prophet set a man by the name of Sidney Hay Jacobs to select from the Old Bible such scriptures as pertained to polygamy, or celestial marriage, with instructions to write it in pamphlet form.

  • I will send for my law books, with instructions to delay in getting them here, and will argue with the Colonel that I must have my books to examine the law.

  • He was quick to act, and sent forward a picket to Cook's Corners, in support of the party occupying Eccles' Hill, with instructions to move forward at daylight and reinforce it.

  • The Welland Field Battery was also landed, with instructions to scour the woods along the liver bank for stragglers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "with instructions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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