Troops can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| troop - move or march as if in a crowd; "They children trooped into the room" | ||
| troop - march in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the street" | ||
Noun |
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| troops - soldiers collectively |
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| 1. | noun | My neighbourhood has been surrounded by American troops for three days now, helicopters have been circling over our heads non-stop. | |
| 2. | noun | Indeed, their reports are filled with tales of the "atrocities" of Indian troops on the innocent jihadis. | |
| 3. | noun | Any government that assumes power after the elections also realises this, so not even Sistani is going to call the US to withdraw its troops, despite what he is saying now, not until they are ensured the insurgency is out of the picture, or that they have an alternative foreign power (in this case Iran) to back them up. | |
| 4. | noun | The next day an angry Musharraf categorically said that Pakistan would not send Pakistani troops to Iraq, a clear snub to the Americans. | |
| 5. | noun | The Spanish story will surely end up being extremely costly to other European countries, including France, who is now expelling inciting preachers and forbidding veils and including others who sent troops to Iraq. | |
| 6. | noun | In the first eight days of January, eighteen US troops have been killed in Iraq, compounded by another twelve deaths from a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Saturday. | |
| 7. | noun | If Iran and Syria - with their significant armaments, missile technologies and suspected chemical weapons capabilities - decide to engage with the relatively undersized US force in Iraq, our troops there will be fish in a barrel. | |
| 8. | noun | Than the troops being issued the weapon were told it was self-cleaning, which it wasn't. | |
| 9. | noun | Once the troops started cleaning the weapon properly (even with the dirtier powder) the Vietnam era M-16 turned out to be a good weapon for the purpose it was being used for. | |
| 10. | noun | The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardos fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, and to have ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. | |
| 11. | noun | When Johnson deployed troops in 1964 he was advised by the military it would take a half-million troops about ten years to pacify South Vietnam. | |
| 12. | noun | He did not give them the number of troops they requested. | |
| 13. | noun | When the Americans swept in with their Search and Destroy operations the Communists quickly leaned they could not stand up to the US firepower, and these regular troops were forced to flee the country and take sanctuary across the borders in Laos and Cambodia. | |
| 14. | noun | The Americans detected the attempt to infiltrate the urban areas and were already redeploying troops from the rural areas. | |
| 15. | noun | It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake. |
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| noun | |
| My neighbourhood has been surrounded by American troops for three days now, helicopters have been circling over our heads non-stop. |
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| Indeed, their reports are filled with tales of the "atrocities" of Indian troops on the innocent jihadis. |
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| Any government that assumes power after the elections also realises this, so not even Sistani is going to call the US to withdraw its troops, despite what he is saying now, not until they are ensured the insurgency is out of the picture, or that they have an alternative foreign power (in this case Iran) to back them up. |
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| The next day an angry Musharraf categorically said that Pakistan would not send Pakistani troops to Iraq, a clear snub to the Americans. |
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| The Spanish story will surely end up being extremely costly to other European countries, including France, who is now expelling inciting preachers and forbidding veils and including others who sent troops to Iraq. |
|
| In the first eight days of January, eighteen US troops have been killed in Iraq, compounded by another twelve deaths from a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Saturday. |
|
| If Iran and Syria - with their significant armaments, missile technologies and suspected chemical weapons capabilities - decide to engage with the relatively undersized US force in Iraq, our troops there will be fish in a barrel. |
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| Than the troops being issued the weapon were told it was self-cleaning, which it wasn't. |
|
| Once the troops started cleaning the weapon properly (even with the dirtier powder) the Vietnam era M-16 turned out to be a good weapon for the purpose it was being used for. |
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| The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardos fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, and to have ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. |
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| When Johnson deployed troops in 1964 he was advised by the military it would take a half-million troops about ten years to pacify South Vietnam. |
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| He did not give them the number of troops they requested. |
|
| When the Americans swept in with their Search and Destroy operations the Communists quickly leaned they could not stand up to the US firepower, and these regular troops were forced to flee the country and take sanctuary across the borders in Laos and Cambodia. |
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| The Americans detected the attempt to infiltrate the urban areas and were already redeploying troops from the rural areas. |
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| It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake. | |