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• Jon was known for being the most upz guy in our platoon.From the entry upz
• The platoon braced itself for the dawn offensive.From the entry dawn
• The platoon fought off the guerrilla attack.From the entry fight off
• A platoon sergeant may only be a non-commissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.From the entry non-commissioned officer
• A platoon sergeant may only be a noncommissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.From the entry noncommissioned officer
• The platoon walked into an ambush.From the entry walk into
• Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants.1999 January 15, “Toronto hostels filled with families and young people”, in The Edmonton Journal, page F9. From the entry pencil-skirted
• There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things. From the entry bluejacket
• The whole platoon had felt gutted, an attitude rarely reflected in press reporters.1986, Keith William Nolan, Into Laos: Dewey Canyon II/Lam Son 719 ; Vietnam 1971. From the entry gutted
• In our platoon Kerrigan, Berner, and Thompson get tapped for service.1949, Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 132. From the entry tap
• We were a platoon of nine carrying the hopes of Team Barloworld through this twenty-one stage counterclockwise yomp around France.2014, Chris Froome, with David Walsh, “2008: The Tour de France”, in The Climb, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry dossard
• At one time, I reflected, we'd had an embarrassment of good, qualified squad leader—ready men in the platoon.2013, Frank Boccia, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969, McFarland…. From the entry embarrassment
• “At Kinko’s, there’s a thin veneer of professional folks riding herd on a vast platoon of semitrained people,” said James E.2007 May 5, Claudia H. Deutsch, “Paper Jam at FedEx Kinko’s”, in New York Times. From the entry semitrained
• One of our platoon sergeants wrote a "jody" cadence to it and we sang "We'll be there" on our daily runs.1990, United States Army Infantry School. Editorial and Pictorial Office, Infantry, volumes 80-81. From the entry jody cadence
• Fluffy is wearing a diamond collar that belongs in the Tower of London with a platoon of Beefeaters standing guard over it.2009, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue, page 239. From the entry overlord
• To account for the exigencies of terrain, extended order drill was practised on different types of ground in platoon, company, or battalion-sized formations.2008, Andrew Iarocci, Shoestring Soldiers: The 1st Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry extended order drill
• Trapped between two hostile platoons in the woods, Rubakhin obeys the survival instinct and covers the prisoner's mouth and nose to keep him silent.2007, Byron Lindsey, Tatiana Spektor, Routes of Passage: Essays on the Fiction of Vladimir Makanin, page 102. From the entry survival instinct
• Everyone in 2nd platoon had two pairs of boots, two pairs of utilities and several pair of skivvies, which served no purpose in Nam.2002, James R. Kelly, Casting Alpha: Amtracs in Vietnam, page 86. From the entry skivvies
• The guidon-bearer was placed by the battery commander to mark the right of the gun line, with the gun platoon aligned to his left.1998, Curt Johnson, Richard Claire Anderson, chapter 1, in Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry gun line
• A small unit, such as a platoon, can time-keep and synchronize very well by itself, particularly if the parade path is not too noisy.1997, Edwin R. Coover, ATM Switches, page 63. From the entry time-keep
• Afterward, Lindenmeyer made his way over to Lieutenant Turchan's radioman who, considering the brown-bar's greenness, almost appeared to be running the platoon.1991, Keith William Nolan, Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ, page 118. From the entry brown bar
• The defense complex itself, not unlike that organized in and around Abu Ageila, consisted of several batallion strongpoints outguarded and flank protected by platoon, detachment, and company sized units.1962 May-June, Stuart A. Beckley, “"Operation Kadesh", Mobility Masterpiece”, in Armor, page 60. From the entry outguard
• No matter how tired they became, once someone in the ranks began a Jody call, the whole platoon would pick it up and everyone seemed to march a little taller.1990, Dwight A. Beck, Army Green: A Way of Life: The Enlisted Years. From the entry jody call

Meaning of platoon

1. noun A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
2. noun A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
3. noun A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.

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How do you use platoon in a sentence?

Platoon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.”

What is a short sentence with platoon?

“The platoon walked into an ambush.”

What does platoon mean?

Platoon means a unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.