Example sentences for: platoons

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

  • The appeal of these female platoons is ancient, potent, and forbidden.

  • It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.

  • Boston writer Jonathan Harr, in the book the movie is based on, went beyond the poison in the Woburn wells to evoke (stopping just short of libel) the poison of the civil courts, where platoons of overpaid corporate lawyers can drive opponents with pockets less deep and psyches less stable into bankruptcy and hysteria.


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