firing party

Example Sentences

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Nearby stood a military band, an 82nd Airborne color guard and a firing party, its seven soldiers arrayed in line.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

A firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a bugler will sound the Last Post at the end of the private service.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2021

The Royal Anglian Regiment, into which the Essex was amalgamated, provided bearers and a firing party for his funeral on Thursday.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2019

After a firing party shot into the frigid air Friday, the smell of gunpowder lingered above the endless rows of white headstones.

From Washington Post

So once again this week, I formed a unit of the firing party, and did the slow march with reversed arms.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.