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
Intending only to destroy munitions and supplies of war—the firing party had been more hasty than discreet.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.
