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  • noun Plural form of squadron.

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Examples

  • We played with the most basic rules; no special cards, no pre-canned scenarios, just a starter set for each side (although two or more kids ran fleets in squadrons).

    Battle of the Uncharted Seas « Third Point of Singularity 2009

  • We played with the most basic rules; no special cards, no pre-canned scenarios, just a starter set for each side (although two or more kids ran fleets in squadrons).

    2009 August 08 « Third Point of Singularity 2009

  • It would be supported by thousands of bombers, fighters and reconnaissance aircraft (including scores of squadrons from the Royal Canadian Air Force).

    Juno, Where Citizen Soldiers From Canada Made History 2004

  • Another fortnight of this pounding and the RAF may have been forced to withdraw their squadrons from the south of England.

    The Battle of Britain 1995

  • Above me the stars were winking and wheeling in squadrons back and forth as the train rounded the curves, and watching them I fell asleep.

    Pictures 1907

  • Above me the stars were winking and wheeling in squadrons back and forth as the train rounded the curves, and watching them I fell asleep.

    Pictures 1907

  • They march into classes, which are called squadrons and named after space missions: Atlantis, Apollo, Endeavor.

    NYT > Home Page By HITEN SAMTANI 2012

  • They march into classes, which are called squadrons and named after space missions: Atlantis, Apollo, Endeavor.

    NYT > Home Page By HITEN SAMTANI 2012

  • I could see long lines of horsemen in white tunics, dim through the light morning mist, and in among the squadrons were the scarlet coats and white breeches of native infantry.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Even through my genuine funk, I could feel that strange tremor of excitement that every horse-soldier knows as the squadrons move forward silently in the gloom towards an unsuspecting enemy, slowly and ponderously, bump-bump-bump at the walk, knee to knee, one hand on the bridle, t'other on the hilt of the lamp-blacked sabre, ears straining for the first cry of alarm.

    Fiancée 2010

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