route march in a sentence
Examples
- While in Rockcliffe the battalion carried out route marches during the day and at night, about twice a week.
- Rowland, preparing to start his parade-route march, told reporters his goal for the day was just to make it through.
- Training intensified as the shadow of war loomed larger with frequent long route marches and exercises at battalion and brigade levels.
- In September 1910, the QOR went on a route march with The Buffs ( East Kent ) Regiment of the British Army.
- The Dartmoor Yomp takes its name from the Royal Marines slang term " yomp ", meaning a route march carrying full kit.
- Almost all of them lasted for an hour and all of them even had route marches on the streets to the participating venues.
- These cadets underwent military and combat training with drills, route marches as well as weapons training in rifles, hand grenades, and bayonet charges.
- The most notable clash occurred in July 1917, when the whole Dublin Battalion went on a route march through the South City and County.
- Each squadron's aim was to prepare cadets for joining the athletics, especially cross country running and long route marches, soon became standard squadron activities.
- Controversially, Seddons drill sergeant, a Carlton supporter, put Seddon and Collingwood teammate, Paddy Rowan, through a 10-mile route march on the morning of the 1915 Grand Final.