Example sentences for: platoon

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

  • After generic introblab, the floor was opened to "the people," a platoon of Brave New World Epsilons who lined up behind a floor microphone and took turns huffing and ranting.

  • His platoon came under attack in the field.

  • Quoting a military manual leaked to the Jakarta Post , the paper said platoon leaders have been authorized to use live ammunition "in self-defense to cripple rioters who are clearly threatening to kill others [or to] cause heavy material damage."

  • The Army suspected him of malingering, and that didn't sit well with the 9th Infantry Division platoon sergeant.

  • Had he not been such a pretentious overlord, a platoon of screenwriters would doubtless have been engaged to rewrite him and make the movie halfway human.


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