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Example sentences for "detrained"

Lexicographically close words:
detraction; detractor; detractors; detracts; detrain; detraining; detrainment; detriment; detrimental; detrimentally
  1. Machine-gun battalions were reported by airmen to have detrained at Cambrai on the evening of the 20th.

  2. It was a very weak Division which detrained at Proven and other stations further west.

  3. A great proportion of the personnel had disappeared, new officers were commanding sections and junior officers batteries, when they detrained at the end of August at Bapaume.

  4. The 109th was ordered to entrain first, and was carried by light railway to Potijze, where it detrained at 3 p.

  5. The troops detrained at Bapaume and Miraumont, ruins now, upon the church steeples of which some of them had looked from the Mesnil Ridge a little over a year before.

  6. On the same day the 1st Corps detrained at St. Omer and marched towards Ypres.

  7. The re-united battalion travelled on by the sleepy little branch line through Lumbres to St. Omer and then forward to Merville where they detrained at 11-30 p.

  8. A week later, on the 19th, the First Corps under Sir Douglas Haig detrained at Hazebrouck and moved on Ypres.

  9. In the evening, silent always, we detrained at Paris and marched to a barracks situated to the north of the capital.

  10. We detrained at Alençon, arriving there about mid-day.

  11. No time was lost here for we detrained on the quay side and embarked at once.

  12. However, the 7th detrained at Kantara and there met, for the first time since Gallipoli, the 52nd (Lowland Scottish) Division.

  13. January, when the Battalion detrained some ten miles south of Boulogne at Etaples, at that date a small, muddy, and evil-smelling fishing village.

  14. French poilus, detrained at Amiens station for a night on their way to some other part of the front, jostled among British soldiers, and their packs were a wonder to see.

  15. Often, as I know, they were detrained at rail-heads in the wind and rain and by ghastly errors of staff-work kept waiting for their food until they were weak and famished.

  16. It was the fate of a captured officer I met who had detrained at Bapaume for the trenches at Contalmaison.

  17. At eight o'clock they detrained at Molteno, and thence after a short rest and a meal they started upon the night march which was intended to end at the break of day at the Boer trenches.

  18. The Division detrained at St. Omer on 10th October, and was joined by the 19th Infantry Brigade (Brig.

  19. Entrained Hopoutre, Proven, and Esquelbec, and detrained Candas and Doullens.

  20. That evening Plumer, who had detrained at Jagersfontein road, crossed the Kalabas bridge and reported Haig to be in rear of him at the Spitz Kopjes.

  21. Almost before the last of the horses had been detrained at Richmond Road, the whole nature of, and necessity for, the movement had changed.

  22. The Siberians were detrained at a station on the railway south of Lowicz, just as reinforcements from the south were at last coming up.

  23. Preceded by a pilot engine the train moved carefully eastward until it reached Ridgeway station, where the force was detrained and formed up in column of march.

  24. Here he detrained his troops, and throwing out an advanced guard and flanking lines of skirmishers, moved promptly forward towards Fort Erie.

  25. The advance guard arrived at Jersey City the following morning at 6 o'clock, where they detrained and marched to the Ferry to get to Hoboken.

  26. On November 11 we detrained at Theunissen, in the Free State.

  27. It had detrained in the capital of the province from which its ranks had been recruited.

  28. In the night after their long journey, while Westerling's ram was getting its death-blow, they had detrained and started for the front.

  29. The crest thus secured, the Manchester detrained under its cover at 2.

  30. Pepworth Hill, and a 96-pound shell fell near the town, its explosion greeting the 2nd Rifle Brigade, which, having detrained at 2.

  31. We detrained by electric light, and bivouacked in an open place just outside the station.

  32. Here we detrained and marched to Barly, arriving there at 7.

  33. Here we detrained and marched on about three miles to Magnicourt, another delightful little French village, which had escaped the destroying hand of war and nestled peacefully amid pleasant rural surroundings.

  34. Each party of troops arriving detrained in succession and marched over the river about a couple of miles to the railway station, where, in due course, they were entrained and despatched up country.

  35. Headquarters had detrained at Ferreira in passing, and had joined the remainder of the battalion.

  36. Immediately they detrained they were hurried into the fighting line.

  37. Smith-Dorrien, detrained at Bethune on the same day, October 11, that the 3rd Army Corps under the command of General Pulteney detrained at St. Omer.

  38. After a most wearisome journey, lasting twenty-four hours, the Battalion detrained at the little station of Berguette.

  39. As dawn was breaking we detrained on the long platform of Cassel, and after the transport was unloaded moved up that steep hill which is so well known a landmark in Flanders.

  40. Companies detrained at Saletto; and in the afternoon billeting orders arrived, and the evening found them lodged in a private house, a theatre and a monastery at Noventa.

  41. Why the companies were not detrained at Bayon, or even Blainville, through which they had passed on the train and thereby saving 15 hours of long and weary hiking, will probably always remain a "military secret.

  42. We detrained there and marched through the town to an old military prison of Napoleon's time.

  43. At last they detrained and marched into a little town.

  44. They detrained and hiked across a bit of wet country that was all alike--all mud, in the dull light that grew only to accentuate the ugliness and dreariness of everything.

  45. The Leinsters, who left Dunmow by train half an hour later, had detrained at this point at one o'clock, and just about three had met the patrols of the Rifles.

  46. The three other regiments which detrained at Sawbridgeworth were disposed as follows, continuing the line of the Grenadiers to the northward.


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