forced march
Example Sentences
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The same logic dictates the "forced march" the hopefuls must undergo -- the final exercise required to earn the paratrooper's beret.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023
And he survived a forced march when his weight dropped from 135 pounds to about 90 pounds before he could escape on April 15, 1945.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2020
Some Marines could make a good spit shine last for a week, but Bull’s shoes would look as if they had been on a forced march after only several days’ wear.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
