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
Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early next morning, accordingly, the firing party started for the hospital ship with the coffin, but, before getting half-way to it, they were signalled to go back, for the man was not yet dead!
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
