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

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

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

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

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