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Example sentences for "small company"

  • There are various arms and warlike accoutrements hanging on the wall, enough of one kind or other to arm a small company.

  • They saw a small company of horsemen riding toward the ridge.

  • A small company of horsemen had suddenly appeared on the summit of the ridge which hid the camp.

  • Shortly before daylight, however, a small company of reckless young warriors rushed boldly into the narrow defile and made a valiant attempt to overcome the Sioux.

  • The forts had no garrisons, but the arsenal was held by a small company of artillery, commanded by Major Haskins, a most worthy and excellent officer, who had lost an arm in Mexico.

  • I also had a small company of irregular Alabama cavalry (commanded by Lieutenant Snelling), used mostly as orderlies and couriers.

  • And when he was departed, tidings came to Florence that the troops of Arezzo were making ready to go into the country of Siena to hinder or bring shame upon the said Prince Charles, which had but a small company of men-at-arms.

  • What was needed was a small company of hunters, brave, swift of foot, clear-headed and skilled in the ways of the woods.

  • It was about the tenth hour when the Governor's deputy came, with his trumpeters and a small company of soldiers--it may be a score.

  • Azariah and Micah were among a small company of chiefs who were standing outside the tent of Judas, and were discussing the prospects of the war.

  • Joash murdered the prophet Zechariah, the son of the high-priest Jehoiada; his great host was routed by a small company of Syrians, and Joash himself was assassinated by his servants.

  • Later on the uselessness of an army apart from Jehovah is shown in the defeat of "the great host" of Joash by "a small company" of Syrians.

  • Within a year the Syrians(405) came against Joash; he had a very great host, but he was powerless against a small company of the Divinely commissioned avengers of Zechariah.

  • The Sioux advanced and found a small company of Cheyennes waiting a short distance from the village.

  • A small company of warriors pursued them a short distance across the plain, but soon turned back to assist in rounding up the ponies, and share in the plunder.

  • A small company of horsemen were riding after them.

  • When they learned that the scouts had discovered a small company of Kiowas, some of the Cheyennes were eager to ride away in pursuit of them.

  • Grenfall Lorry and a small company of horsemen rode up in furious haste long before the sun was in mid-sky.

  • Beverly and Quinnox came up with them and found all eyes centered on a small company of men encamped in the rocky defile a hundred yards from the main road.

  • His half-brother, the dethroned Prince Dantan, was still hiding in the fastnesses of the hills, protected by a small company of nobles, and there was no hope that he ever could regain his crown.

  • After assisting to fence this farm and build some log houses, I was dispatched ahead by the Presidency with a small company to try to find another location.

  • Arriving at Elk Horn River with a small company, we made a ferry of a raft of dry cotton-wood timber, and rafted over our own company of about fifty wagons.

  • A small company of horses was posted on our right wing on a commanding eminence, and another small company in the rear of our main body, intended as a kind of reserve.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small company" 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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