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Example sentences for "staffs"

Lexicographically close words:
staf; staff; staffe; staffed; staffing; stag; stage; stagecoach; stagecoaches; stagecraft
  1. The general commanding the division and the colonel commanding the brigade, with their staffs and escorts, had ridden into the notch to have a look at the enemy's guns--which had straightway obscured themselves in towering clouds of smoke.

  2. Groups of horsemen--generals with their staffs and escorts, and field officers of regiments behind the colors--broke the regularity of the lines and columns.

  3. I see that you have got all the rest too, Spartan shoes, staffs and men's cloaks, as 'twas arranged.

  4. A far greater effort has been put forth by the Allied armies and staffs to assist us than could have been expected.

  5. The warmth of our reception in England and France was only equaled by the readiness of the commanders-in-chief of the veteran armies of the Allies and their staffs to place their experience at our disposal.

  6. With the exception of the engine staffs all the German sailors remained on deck.

  7. In substance she denied that German officers were on the staffs of Bulgarian armies, but said that if they were present that fact concerned only Bulgaria, which reserved the right to invite whomsoever she liked.

  8. Great credit is due to the engineer staffs of the New Zealand and Indomitable.

  9. Four sets of admitting medical officers with staffs were in readiness, and 200 patients could be disposed of in an hour.

  10. The staff for the ships was provided by detailing officers, nurses, and orderlies from the scanty staffs of Nos.

  11. The Australian Government, under request, then began to provide transport staffs who came with the troopships and returned at later intervals when the troopships went back again as "hospital carriers.

  12. It is not far afield to estimate that seven of every ten of the Socialist leaders and government officials in Germany have been or still are members of the editorial staffs of Socialist newspapers or magazines.

  13. Probably three quarters of the men who afterward became prominent in the party owed their rise and, to a great extent, their general education to their service on the editorial staffs of their party's press.

  14. I claim," said he to the archbishop one day, raising his arms towards heaven, "I claim to hold in this hand all the pastoral staffs in my kingdom.

  15. Take two flags without staffs and baste them together as in Fig.

  16. When these details are settled, the flag-staffs are again planted in the flower-pots and the signal given for a new game.

  17. On quite other lines, equally important, the ascertainment of values proceeds at laboratories thoroughly organized for the purpose by staffs at the service of the public.

  18. At the end of a week the Battalion was almost denuded of recruits under training, while the orderly room and training staffs were on the point of breakdown from almost continuous work and strain.

  19. Training staffs were reduced to a minimum, and every fit officer and N.

  20. This is the duty of the General and Administrative Staffs of an Army or Formation and usually entails an immense amount of careful work.

  21. Demonstrations and schemes were at once arranged for so that the staffs of the various fighting formations could witness what tanks were able to accomplish.

  22. It possesses a body and a brain; its fighting troops are the former, its headquarters staffs the latter.

  23. Special officers were appointed to the staffs of Groups of Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Brigades, whose sole duty it was to deal with anti-tank defence within these formations.

  24. Since the Marxian principles are spreading, there is a rapidly growing demand for articles to refute and combat them; yet many on the editorial staffs seem to have little definite knowledge concerning the teachings of the revolutionists.

  25. If proper functioning of staffs is generally understood, and if staffs are correctly organized to perform their functions, the basis for their sound organization will become a matter of general understanding.

  26. It was a frightful problem, but the medical staffs did not lose their nerve, and set about the business of removal with fine skill and discipline.

  27. The final details the section commanders worked out for themselves with the staffs concerned.

  28. Counties and cities often have their own staffs of detectives, but there are many occasions when special detectives must be pressed into service.

  29. Practically all large railroads maintain staffs of detectives whose duties are to travel over the lines and do what is called checking.

  30. And they had staffs and scrips, and they told each other tales.

  31. Alice said--'the pilgrims' staffs and hats and the cockles.

  32. Upon several of the staffs only two or three shreds of colours are to be seen adhering.

  33. Students, faculty, and staffs moved out of the sinister zones of enemy occupation, usually travelling on foot, until they found new homes hundreds or even thousands of miles from their original locations.

  34. The examination, training, appointing, and discharging of a magistrate or of general staffs are to be done according to the promulgated National law.

  35. The Staffs are in the position of two householders who are exchanging residences and moving their families under the immediate threat of a burglary at either or both houses.

  36. For the Brigade and Divisional Staffs the period was one of doubt and anxiety.

  37. The Generals and their Staffs were caught by the outbreak of this Inferno.

  38. In addition, the Staffs of the 3rd Division and the 8th Brigade, who were primarily concerned, had lost their commanding officers.

  39. The decision of the Tribunal on these staff organizations includes only the Amtsleiters who were heads of offices on the staffs of the Reichsleitung, Gauleitung, and Kreisleitung.

  40. British and French staffs had been cooperating in making certain plans for military operations in the Low Countries, but the purpose of this planning was to defend these countries in the event of a German attack.

  41. From 1940 all the French schools were closed, their staffs expelled, and the German school system was introduced in the three Departments.

  42. The purpose of the meeting was to enable Hitler to inform the heads of the Armed Forces and their staffs of his views on the political situation and his future aims.


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