"troop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His native troops deserted when they saw the enemy.
- There had been 40 killed, but 1,096 troops had deserted.
- He left the city in order to fight the British at their landing place, but his troops deserted.
- After 39 days of bombing, some 100,000 Iraqi troops had deserted and 20 percent of their heavy equipment was destroyed.
- His troops are deserting in their hundreds, taking their arms with them.
- Though Lochry's troops were not deserting he also had a difficult situation.
- "Why did our own troops think we were going to desert?"
- However, the troops, upon hearing the news, collapsed and deserted him.
- The surviving troops were panicking now, firing into one another, deserting their posts, and fighting to get aboard the assault boat.
- The Iraqi troops "standing up" in Anbar are deserting at a rate as high as 40 percent.
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