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Example sentences for "advance from"

  • In the event your pickets or scouts report an advance from Readyville or Murfreesboro', you will not leave your present position.

  • When I returned to Baird's mill, I found every thing gone, but a few pickets, and the scouts reported indications of an advance from Jefferson.

  • Learning that Captain Castleman had fallen back from Falmouth (in anticipation of an advance from Walton), to Cynthiana, I went to that place also.

  • On this day the leading troops of the XVIIIth Army Corps barely succeeded in reaching the vicinity of Lomont through difficult hill and woodland region, and Cremer's Brigade[76] had only then begun to advance from Vesoul.

  • The IIIrd Corps was to advance from Loury on Orleans, and the Xth, again forming the reserve, was to follow to Chevilly.

  • An advance from St. Denis against Stains was repulsed, and two gunboats on the Seine had to go about in consequence of the fire of four field batteries on Orgemont.

  • Four battalions were to advance from Vendome, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade from Freteval was to scout towards Epuisay.

  • Harris to move from Paris, and the Twenty-first Ohio under Colonel Norton to advance from Nicholasville to Olympia Springs, where the entire command was concentrated.

  • On the 18th Johnston directed Buckner to occupy Bowling Green, and ordered Zollicoffer to advance from Knoxville to Cumberland Gap.

  • Do you sometimes get an advance from Mr. Robertson?

  • I asked for £1 of advance from him at the settlement, and he gave it to me.

  • I got an advance from him, and when I paid the money again at the end of the voyage the receipt was handed back to me.

  • That is a thing which has something to do with it, and sometimes I have not had money to get at settlement; but when I asked for an advance from Mr. Bruce, I always got it.

  • Therefore, the progress of history has been attended by an advance from smaller to larger marine areas, with a constant increase in those manifold relations between peoples and lands which the water is able to establish.

  • Just as the development of a people and state is marked by advance from small to ever larger areas, so is that of a civilization.

  • Sidenote: Advance from natural to artificial basis of subsistence.

  • Religion could obtain no content, and all change in it would be only an advance from a more crude to a more refined anthropomorphism, if it were based solely upon human needs and aided man to attain a supposed happiness.

  • It was successful to that extent, and when at one moment the Serbs temporarily broke the Bulgarian front, a junction seemed possible with the French advance from Veles.

  • This movement was checked in February, and the Germans hoped by an advance from Mlawa to get across the Narew south of Pultusk.

  • Augereau had received orders to advance from Lyons, and receive the reinforcements which Eugene was to have despatched from Italy across the Alps.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "advance from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advance from; advance guard; advance upon; advanced cases; advanced guard; advanced post; advanced state; advanced towards; another example; cathedral church; clad mountains; definite plan; give unto; iron plate; large calibre; last hour; legitimate business; minor symphony; nervous fever; none beside; opium poppy; parliamentary vote; plain terms; religious beliefs; white buffalo; wood engraving