Example sentences for: convoy

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

  • As the islanders watched from their hills, the more mobile British mercilessly chopped up the French convoy until finally de Grasse surrendered.

  • In early August, the tribals reported an attempt to ambush Bin Ladin's convoy as he traveled on the road between Kabul and Kandahar city- their first such reported interdiction attempt in more than a year and a half.

  • In an editorial, the paper defended Simpson's reporting from Belgrade, but attacked NATO for being so quick to blame Serbia for the deaths of Albanian refugees in the disputed convoy incident.

  • The NYT explains that since the plan will let some banks fail, it is a departure from Japan's "convoy" system via which all banks support one another.

  • De Grasse’s fleet of 34 warships was escorting a convoy of 150 cargo vessels to Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic and Haiti) planning to join a Spanish naval venture against Britain’s base on Jamaica.


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