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Example sentences for "effectives"

Lexicographically close words:
effectes; effecting; effective; effectively; effectiveness; effects; effectual; effectuall; effectually; effectuate
  1. All the Canadian troops had fought with great valor and had lost over half the effectives of each battalion.

  2. He immediately joined the officers' training class and qualified as a combatant officer so that if need be he could transfer to the effectives in Flanders.

  3. Including officers and artillery, therefore, the effectives of these divisions numbered about 5500.

  4. According to his spokesmen in the Senate, his effectives numbered only some 5000 and probably they did not reach those figures.

  5. The effectives on this front exceeded 300 battalions.

  6. Boehm-Ermolli is said to have lost half of his effectives in his attempt to penetrate through Grodek and Dornfeld, fifteen miles south of Lemberg.

  7. Grant's total effectives at first were only thirty-three thousand.

  8. Yet, even with Van Dorn's and other reinforcements, he had only sixty thousand effectives against Halleck's double numbers.

  9. In the month of November, the total number of effectives was 154; and they earned the large sum of L.

  10. The students and the cadres will be reckoned in the effectives fixed by the second and third sub-paragraphs of Paragraph 1 of Article 160 of the present treaty.

  11. I suppose you could beat up a hundred, or even a hundred and fifty, rifle-bearing effectives in an hour.

  12. We tumbled forward in silence, forty effectives in all, with a couple dozen native converts behind us, who had been provided with some of the captured rifles and swords.

  13. The number of effectives and their disposition to be determined later by the Allies.

  14. In April he added five more divisions to the forces around Verdun by weakening the effectives in other sectors and drawing more troops from the Russian front.

  15. But what made the real difference, and what really turned the scale, was that the Americans had hardly any regulars and that their effectives rarely averaged three-quarters of their total strength.

  16. So Arnold found himself with less than seven hundred effectives against the eleven hundred British who were now behind the walls.

  17. Thus Procter presently found himself with only five hundred effectives in face of a much superior and constantly increasing enemy.

  18. Boyd then withdrew, having lost four hundred men; and Morrison's remaining six hundred effectives slept on their hard-won ground.

  19. The effective American regulars were little less than double his present twelve hundred effectives of all kinds and were the fresher army of the two.

  20. Information was received that a body of mutineers 4,000 strong, with twelve guns, was in progress from Oude to make an attack on the Treasury at Chupra, and afterwards to threaten our small body of effectives at Dinapore.

  21. Hill's claim that he had but little over 1300 effectives in five brigades of Lee's corps is not credible.

  22. The total number of German effectives is fixed at one hundred thousand, including not more than four thousand officers, and it is provided that there shall be no other military forces raised outside this figure.

  23. Number of effectives and their disposition to be determined later by the Allies after consultation with the Turkish Government.

  24. Even for the former purpose, however, two columns of some 5000 effectives each were needed, and the men as well as clothing for them could not be provided.

  25. Reduction of the Sherifian army to its effectives of December, 1919.

  26. Perhaps England was not very sorry, after all, that France should divert against herself part of the Arabian forces from the Mesopotamian front, where the British effectives were insufficient in number.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effectives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.