"advance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The victory was followed by a rapid French advance.
- The French advance gained momentum when the guns began to run out of ammunition.
- Sharpe had twenty riflemen behind those walls, put there to hold up any French advance down the road.
- This timely action temporarily stopped any further French advance.
- At this point he learned from Captain Trent of the French advance.
- Though fierce fighting broke out, the French advance was halted.
- It was not long now till nightfall, and the French advance would certainly stop with the darkness.
- The Chinese did not attempt to hold the forts in the face of the French advance.
- He and his forces were ever ready to retake a town and to meet a French advance.
- There they fought from tree to tree, slowing the French advance.
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