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

SNCC, pronounced “snick,” had quickly become a kind of advance guard of the movement, helping organize sit-ins and demonstrations throughout the South.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

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