How to use squadron in a sentence

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• The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.From the entry split up
• The squadron was bounced north of the town.From the entry bounce
• Four members of the squadron were on patrol.From the entry patrol
• Even after receiving the order to withdraw, the battle-cruiser squadron took several more hits before they managed to open the range.From the entry open the range
• Our squadron just got its first Chief Woctor last month.From the entry Woctor
• Brown Shirts were attached to the aircraft squadrons and were maintenance people.2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry brown shirt
• It didn't take but a hot minute to find out what squadron Craig was with.2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, →ISBN. From the entry hot minute
• Squadron clubs operated in full swing, with drinks, music, and "spratmo" (gossip).1998, Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies. From the entry spratmo
• Blue shirts are responsible for handling and securing squadron aircraft with chocks and chains.1988, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 21. From the entry blue shirt
• Roberts-Smith and his commander had made it clear the "rookie" needed to kill someone to truly become part of the squadron.2026 April 7, Michael Bachelard, “Kill boards, trophy hunting and 'blooding': What courts have already heard about Ben Roberts-Smith's…. From the entry blood
• The edict against dogfighting divided our squadron into three factions.2019, Dan Pedersen, Topgun. From the entry hassle
• Unfortunately, the squadron was, in fact, quite a bit north by northeast of where they thought they actually were.2019 November 20, Drachinifel, 8:10 from the start, in Honda Point Disaster - Taking a Wrong Turn at Albuquerque, archived from the…. From the entry line ahead
• The squadron ground crews and armourers set high standards.2014, Tony Redding, Life and Death in Bomber Command. From the entry armorer
• After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.2009 April 4, Steve Holland, “Ron 'Nobby' Clark”, in The Guardian. From the entry aimer
• Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons.2007 September 30, Andrew Salmon, “Dogfights and daring in Korea's deep blue yonder”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry sally
• I gotta send somebody from this squadron to Miramar.1986, Jim Cash; Jack Epps, Jr.; Ehud Yonay, Top Gun, California: Paramount Pictures. From the entry character
• This is the second squadron pay roll you've mischecked today.1944, Story - Volumes 25-26, page 72. From the entry mischeck
• They have some sort of encampment there.” “Those are what the gryphons call ‘keythongs,’ Warford,” Jophriel responds, “They are part of a ground squadron.2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, pages 4 (Opinicus) and 237 (The Quest Begins). From the entry keythong
• Now those squadrons of flapping geese and parades of bucking broncos that come alive when the glass drum spins animate his brain.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 12. From the entry zoopraxiscope
• We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.2012 January 1, anonymous author, “Safety Culture”, in Wingman, page 32. From the entry queep
• Now back in the UK, based at Tealby Moor, the squadron itself was being re-manned and re-equipped, this time with the Wellington night bomber.2011, Christopher Priest, The Separation. From the entry re-man
• The squadron covered their evacuation by train from Peiping to the port city of Ch’in-huang-tao (now Quinhuangdao), where the Great Wall meets the ocean.1999, “John Glenn, A Memoir”, in Today's Best Nonfiction, volume 59, Reader's Digest Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry Ch'in-huang-tao
• Might as well say hi to Red Alert, she thought, before he imagines a Decepticon squadron has snucken past his security systems and kidnapped me.1998 June 29, Vulcana, quoting Mischa Gelman, “[FANFIC] First Impressions by Mischa”, in alt.toys.transformers.fanfic (Usenet), archived…. From the entry snucken
• The Rasulids kept the southern coast under loose control up to Dhofar, even holding Hadramawt to some extent and maintaining an antipirate squadron.1974, Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 29. From the entry antipirate
• "We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice.1942, Quentin James Reynolds, Only the Stars are Neutral. From the entry wizard
• He rejoined the Twenty-Second Lancers at Cape Town—all the squadrons together again for the first time in two years—and sailed for home.1936 February, C[ecil] S[cott] Forester [pseudonym; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith], chapter II, in The General, Boston, Mass.: Little…. From the entry pennon
• And if you're that desperate, you have much, much larger issues to address than could possibly ever be solved by a battlecarrier carrying a squadron or two of fighters.2022 February 9, Drachinifel, 16:39 from the start, in Naval Engineering Disasters - How not to design a ship, archived from the original…. From the entry battlecarrier
• On the other hand, HMS Colossus takes multiple hits from several battleships at once, having drifted closer to the German fleet than the rest of her squadron.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 21:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry lost with all hands
• Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.2011, Phil Geusz, No Victory Won, page 354. From the entry heel-and-toe
• Vice-Admiral Kamimura reports that at dawn of the 14th instant, our squadron found, off Ulsan, the south-eastern coast of Corea, three ships of the Vladivostock squadron steaming southward.1904 August 17 [1904 August 13], “KAMIMURA'S REPORT.”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 14,467, Hong Kong, sourced from Tokyo and Kamimura…. From the entry instant

Meaning of squadron

1. noun A body of troops drawn up in a square.
2. noun A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
3. noun A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.

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How do you use squadron in a sentence?

Squadron is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.”

What is a short sentence with squadron?

“the North Atlantic Squadron”

What does squadron mean?

Squadron means a body of troops drawn up in a square.