Example sentences for: battalions

How can you use “battalions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Note 11: Goldhagen asserts the German police battalions knew of the planned destruction of the Jews before entering the Soviet Union, rather than two months after, as most historians believe.

  • The objective of the drama is to have the Moros steal the Holy Cross that sits in the center of a plaza and the Cristianos win it back by staging a sword battle between the two battalions of soldiers, the Moors and the Christians.

  • A few hours after Japan’s attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a dozen Japanese battalions began an assault on Hong Kong; Hong Kong’s minimal air force was destroyed on the airfield at Kai Tak within five minutes.

  • Each division was further divided into between four to seven battalions.

  • And there were a number of outfits —companies, battalions, and at least one regiment—that claimed snafu was coined solely in-house, to the point that the division newspaper once actually tried to authenticate the origin, precipitating a near riot.


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