Crossword-Solution: PLATOON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Platoon | n. | Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square. |
| Platoon | n. | Now, in the United States service, half of a company. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLATOON | anagram | PALTOON |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLATOON (5)
According to a report written by the detachment commander, a reinforced platoon was sent to the town of Bingham, about 29 kilometers northeast of the test site, while offsite radiological safety monitors surveyed the area.
Perhaps, if we were all marched out in a row, and a piece of platoon firing to the drums performed, it would be well for us; although, I suppose—and yet I wonder!—so ill for the poor mother and for the dear wife.
There at the head of the white platoon marched Allenby, the football captain, slim and defiant, as if aware that this year the hopes of the college rested on him, that his hundred-and-sixty pounds were expected to dodge to victory through the heavy blue and crimson lines.
Fire on no account.” Heyward had already permitted his companion to bury part of his person in the thicket, when, stretching forth his arm, he arrested him, in order to ask: “If I see you in danger, may I not risk a shot?” Hawkeye regarded him a moment, like one who knew not how to take the question; then, nodding his head, he answered, still laughing, though inaudibly: “Fire a whole platoon, major.” In the next moment he was concealed by the leaves.
Rumfry, if that is the gentleman's name who preached an admirable Christmas sermon in a beautiful church there, will remember the platoon of four men and four women who made perhaps a fifth of his congregation in that storm,--a storm which shut off most church-going.
Quotes with PLATOON (3)
Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him.
In fact, second lieutenants were primary-school teachers. Sure, teachers with guns, but a platoon commander was, nonetheless, the guy who sorted out the working day for 30 men under his command, taught their lessons, helped them with their homework, sorted out their petty squabbles and put plasters on their knees when they fell over in the playground.
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).