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

A chaplain spoke a prayer, a bugler sounded Taps and a firing party shot three times into the soft morning light.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2015

Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor.

From Time Magazine Archive

I remember some years ago the magnificent solemnity of a military funeral was brought to a somewhat ludicrous termination by one of the firing party shooting his comrade in the stern.

From Hints on the Use and Handling of Firearms Generally, and the Revolver in Particular by Curling, Lieut. H. Onslow