rearguards in a sentence

Examples

1. Only a rearguard of the Fourth Army was captured at Amman.
2. Trelliard's division and an infantry division were the rearguard.
3. The agencies involved are, however, fighting a determined rearguard action.
4. It marks the third straight year a rearguard has been taken first.
5. A loyal rearguard still stands stoutly behind him in Israel.
6. Cheney resisted these notions, fighting rearguard battles within the Bush administration.
7. Pocock was undoubtedly the anchor in New Zealand's rearguard effort.
8. The Basques attacked and destroyed his rearguard and baggage train.
9. Januar " were to cover the east and provide the rearguard.
10. Meanwhile, the rearguard was engaging the Germans to cover the evacuation.