"pursuit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Austrian commander Klenau, with an initial force of 18,000 men and 64 cannons had orders to delay the French pursuit.
- It was certain that the Incas had merely delayed, not abandoned, the pursuit, and our powers and means of resistance had been worn to nothing.
- They would delay the pursuit.
- He then rallied Lee's troops, who delayed the British pursuit until the main force could take up positions further to the west.
- This action not only delayed the pursuit but also led the British to believe Washington was heading along the King's Highway toward New Brunswick.
- When they passed the Pah bridge, they removed several wooden boards from the bridge to delay the pursuit by soldiers.
- He delayed the pursuit of Merriweather by drawing a gun and pretending to doubt the honesty of the Porters.
- "We should not delay the pursuit of the Occhlon,** the Trustee said, "but neither can we let southern spies go unhunted.
- To delay the Soviet pursuit, they also planned to blow up the rail bridge on the Seret.
- However, she delayed the pursuit of her dream for fifty years.
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