Example sentences for: platoon

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

  • A small, white-bearded Melanesian man strolls nonchalantly past a platoon of tensely trudging grunts who can't believe they're encountering this instead of a hail of Japanese bullets.

  • 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.

  • In 1917, for example, when New York City introduced a "platoon" system to deal with an influx of pupils, students rebelled--literally.

  • 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.

  • Midwest stoicism being what it is, Dole still seems uncomfortable talking about the wounds that nearly killed him as he lead (sic) a platoon up an Italian hill April 12, 1945.


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