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

"Would ask to have it off if I was facing a firing party, and in the present circumstances don't like it at all!—Did you happen to meet any of my couriers?"

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary