Example sentences for: platoon

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

  • If anything, there are too many--every bright young thing graduating from college these days feels compelled to publish his or her particular social critique, whether readable or not, and there is a small platoon of quasi-subsidized publishing companies (Free Press, Basic Books, Public Affairs Press, etc.) ready to print them.

  • 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.

  • If this doesn't work, it added, a platoon commander has the authority "to proceed with actions he deems appropriate."

  • 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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