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Example sentences for "general movement"

  • When information came that, on the day after Christmas, Burnside was preparing for a new campaign, the President telegraphed him: "I have good reason for saying you must not make a general movement of the army without letting me know.

  • General McClellan hastened across the river, and, finding the news to be correct, issued orders during the night for a general movement of the army next morning to the vacated rebel camps.

  • I deemed it of the utmost importance, before a general movement of the armies operating against Richmond, that all communications with the city, north of James River, should be cut off.

  • The Emperor Joseph II in his day passed for an unbeliever; [1489] but there was no general movement.

  • To carry intellectual progress much further there was needed a general movement of scientific study and a reform in education.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    butter melted; general account; general attack; general characters; general condition; general court; general discharge; general level; general movement; general name; general notion; general practice; general practitioner; general propositions; general references; general rise; general rule; general secretary; general store; general terms; generally admitted; generally recognised; generally represented; generally used; great proportion; shall refer