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
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The firing party brought up the rear of the procession.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)