advance guard
Example Sentences
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The Kenyans are the advance guard core of a UN-mandated, multinational force that will seek to restore peace to Haiti.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
Summer thunderstorms in the Washington area are generally transient events, sweeping across city and suburb from the north or west, following an advance guard of darkening skies.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
It may be more interested in philosophy than in history: I’m tempted to understand each of Bean’s companions as representing an advance guard of Enlightenment thought.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2018
With mountain men as his advance guard, John Jacob Astor monopolized the American fur trade by 1830 but sold his stake in 1834 when the fashion for beaver hats began declining.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Then, when the position was prepared, the six kings of the advance guard were to retire through it, leaving Lot in the front line while they reformed.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
