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Example sentences for "vastly superior"

  • Here is a very interesting letter, describing an action between the Princess Royal packet, Captain John Skinner, and a French privateer of vastly superior force.

  • During his brief command he had the enemy hovering around near the city, in vastly superior numbers to his own.

  • Thus the enemy, with a vastly superior force, was strongly fortified to the east, south, and west, and commanded the river below.

  • Before he got up, Geary had been engaged for about three hours against a vastly superior force.

  • I have for the past four seasons worked Hussey's Reaper, and unhesitatingly pronounce it vastly superior to McCormick's or any other Reaper I have seen used.

  • French, and for its gallant defence a few days later against a vastly superior force.

  • It commemorates a very gallant stand made by a small body of Bombay Sepoys during the Second Mahratta War, in face of vastly superior forces.

  • An attack upon both wings can only be made when the attacking force is vastly superior.

  • This retreat of undisciplined troops, in the presence of vastly superior numbers of the enemy, would have been extremely hazardous had it not been effected on a line of forts which were held by our own troops.

  • Vastly superior as were the English force and guns, the French fire was maintained with the greatest energy and spirit, the gunners being directed and animated by Monsieur De Vignes, captain of one of the ships which had been sunk.

  • Calcutta was still besieged by a vastly superior force, supplies of all kinds were running short, the attack of the previous day had been a failure.


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