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Example sentences for "double quick"

  • The troops marched into line on double quick, and in splendid style.

  • The 1st and 3rd Regiments went forward at double quick time, and they were soon within the line of the enemy's fire.

  • Fribley gave the order by the right flank, double quick!

  • Well, I am looking after you,” and he made me “double quick” until I caught up with the rest.

  • I gave the order “By the right flank, double quick,” and we went quicker than that.

  • The regiment was then ordered forward double quick, as others had seen Lieutenant Hume and were anxious to be first in the works, but the 19th could run either to the front or rear and our flags were the first to float from the fortifications.

  • Accordingly, orders were given to deploy the 4th Michigan as skirmishers, and clear the wood, which was done in fine style, and at a double quick.

  • The various regiments were out on drill, when suddenly the long roll was beaten, and the troops, in double quick time, proceeded to camp.

  • The troops now marched on a double quick, the flying rebels discerned in the distance retreating in haste, leaving a vast amount of ammunition and baggage in our hands.

  • It was soon done, the men marching out of camp at a double quick, accompanied by two pieces of artillery from Battery L, Fifth U.

  • He pushed off Stuart's cavalry from Sulphur Springs upon our rear on Tuesday evening, and rushed forward Hill's corps at a double quick to support them.

  • The Rebels immediately hurried the men off on double quick, and, after taking them some twenty-five miles, released them on parole, leaving them to find their way back to camp on foot.

  • Hardly, however, had we prepared our meal, when the order was given to move, and the grub went down our throats on a double quick.

  • Lieutenant Baldwin having the front, gave the order to forward on double quick.

  • Down the road toward the foot of Marye's Heights his magnificent army swept at double quick.

  • Suddenly a thousand grey clad men leaped from their cover over the hills and swept up stream at double quick.

  • A bald-headed Colonel rushed by at double quick leading a fresh regiment into action to support them.

  • The regiments were going into battle double quick, but they were not going so fast they couldn't laugh.

  • Had our troops on this occasion rushed forward to the ditch in double quick time, or at least at a quick march, I venture to affirm the work would have been carried with the fourth part of the loss of what they suffered.

  • The part my battalion had to play, was to cross the valley separating the two La Rhunes in double quick time, and attack the French rock by a gorge, which allowed a passage from that valley into their position.

  • We continued to advance at double quick time, our firelocks at the trail, our bonnets in our hands.

  • Two brigades came up at double quick time.

  • The word was given, “Fix bayonets, throw off all lumber;” and we were moved up the hill at double quick time.

  • We halted, fixed bayonets, and moved on in double quick time: we did not receive above four shot from the battery until we were under the works, and had the ladders placed to the walls.

  • We were ordered to fall back over the crest of a little hill south of us, in double quick time.

  • I looked and saw that our men had gotten some distance back toward our breastworks, so we started back in double quick time, I’ll tell you.

  • We had a very brave Irish Sergeant, who said he’d never run, and as we were going back in double quick time, the Capt.

  • In the face of this storm of shells and bullets, the corps pressed forward at double quick, over the ploughed grounds and through the corn fields, halting for a few moments at the village.

  • These companies, by a hard march, much of it at double quick, succeeded in overtaking the division just as the Third brigade was making a charge over ground already thrice won and lost by Sumner's troops.

  • No sooner had we crossed than an order came to double quick.

  • The order was given to "about face, double quick, march.

  • We sprang to the guns, and sure enough, in a minute, those blue columns burst out of the woods at a double quick.

  • Goggin said "for heaven's sake come at double quick;" the need was very urgent.

  • The long-roll beat in our marching columns, and some of the infantry brigades broke into the double quick to the front, and we could see them heading off, right and left into the woods.

  • She’ll be back here in double quick time, though, when she hears of this.

  • They closed up the gaps with clock-like precision and moved forward at double quick.

  • A company of soldiers in dull brown uniforms with helmets of the pattern of the ancient Romans swung suddenly into Broadway from a vacant building on a darkened side street and rushed northward at double quick.

  • Some of you tie the prisoners, except him, two and two, and start them down the road at double quick," ordered Captain Bagby.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "double quick" 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:
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