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

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

After passing the troops, the band and firing party filed to the right, the prisoner and pall-bearers to the left.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton