"column" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tanks and personnel carriers could then follow, moving in narrow columns through safe lanes marked with colored barrels.
- As a result, line was mostly used as a stationary formation, with troops moving in columns and then deploying to line at their destination.
- The soldiers move in sinister columns through the streets.
- We moved in separate columns, for I deemed it wise to keep the tribes apart until the sight of their oppressors should again drown tribal feelings.
- The victims were moved in columns of a thousand people toward the execution ground.
- Men were still moving through them in ragged columns of fours.
- Screening his army with his cavalry, Frederick moved his infantry toward the Austrian left in columns.
- As a result, when movement over such terrain was required over a significant distance troops would move in columns and then deploy into line at their destination.
- The troops of each nation moved in separate broad columns, trampling a vast track through the knee-high grass.
- The Soviet troops lacked skill in skiing, so soldiers were restricted to movement by road and were forced to move in long columns.
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