firing party

Example Sentences

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Nearby stood a military band, an 82nd Airborne color guard and a firing party, its seven soldiers arrayed in line.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

The Royal Anglian Regiment, into which the Essex was amalgamated, provided bearers and a firing party for his funeral on Thursday.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

A chaplain spoke a prayer, a bugler sounded Taps and a firing party shot three times into the soft morning light.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2015

Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then three men volunteered to go, and under cover of darkness, and of a firing party, they made the trip safely, filling and bringing in as many canteens as they could carry.

From The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. by Shields, G. O.