"troop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Serbian troops had overrun the area and the 300 or so United Nations soldiers in charge of safeguarding it.
- In May of the following year German troops overran Belgium.
- In a telephone interview, he said his troops had overrun the base of the group and found water, tents and vehicles.
- It was far better, they argued, to wait until British troops overran the sector than for the commanding general to risk capture or possible death.
- His troops had just overrun a battalion there.
- Shortly before American troops overran the mosque, he fled the city.
- In 1917, British and Russian troops overran the country.
- Grant's troops overran the surprised Confederate camp and destroyed it.
- American troops had overrun two smaller targets, spotters described them as "surrounded by dead Germans".
- Iraqi troops overran the country shortly after midnight on 2 August 1990.
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