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

A firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a bugler will sound the Last Post at the end of the private service.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2021

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

Shading his eyes with his left hand Lieutenant Prescott tried to locate this other firing party of Moros.

From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)