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How to use echelon in a sentence

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Force Delta, which was the sea echelon of the second airborne battle group, left Germany on 26 July and closed on Beirut between 3 and 5 August.
Since cross winds will drift the slipstream downwind, a pace line must echelon to get the benefit of drafting in a cross wind.
Berger's booming punts and kickoffs kept the team's outstanding coverage units in the upper echelon.
The second echelon was comprised of an armored division and a corps army aviation brigade.
Counterattack in a built-up area consists of storming buildings and is conducted with relatively small assets from the second echelon force.
Restoring the corps echelon became an urgent necessity as early as the counteroffensive off Moscow.
The next echelon brings together all the elected coordinators of all the blocks in one of the major zones in the Pueblo Joven.
For example, a friendly higher echelon may have interdicted the enemy formation we expected to see.
As each flight started on the downwind leg the ships reformed in an echelon to the right and completed before-landing checklists.
Combined with the rear units, these rear-echelon maintenance bases were known as rear echelon maintenance combined operations.
The platoon in reserve moves to the right, assuming the bottom position in the new fight echelon.
As planned, we moved the formation to starboard echelon and tried to re-enter for the break.
Fluorite-quartz intergrowths fill veins that follow high-angle en echelon joints and minor faults in granite.
In some armies, tanks were attached to rifle divisions of not only the first but also the second echelon of the corps.
They are moderate reformists who believe in the essential goodness of some members of the top echelon.
Let us now consider in more detail defense operation in the tactical echelon.
The marines ' assault echelon had three hours to offload before tidefall threatened to beach their ships.
He was commissioned in the British Army in 1911 and during World War I commanded in frontline action at every echelon from platoon to brigade.
I commend Zizek for being one of the great cinephiles among the upper echelon of today's intelligentsia.
He was assigned to a section attached to the rear echelon of the Scots Guards.
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I tried the echelon, the 'general advanced,' then the 'give away' and 'flank' movements.
We could negate the efforts of any echelon below the Eddorians themselves, it is true.
Across the broad plain the whole of the brigade was in echelon.
Their left was arranged en potence, their right was drawn up in echelon.
All egress is stopped by the Allies' echelon formation, except by Aleppo.
The advance was made by the two brigades in squares marching in echelon.
The formation was in echelon by the right, with unequal intervals.
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