orders to move on

Example Sentences

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Coco pleaded guilty to breaching traffic laws, lighting a flare and disobeying police orders to move on.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2023

But this time, police said, they had blocked traffic and refused to obey orders to move on.

From Time Magazine Archive

General E. O. C. Ord was moved to Burnsville, where Grant established his headquarters, and Rosecrans marched his two divisions to Jacinto, with orders to move on Iuka, flank Price, and cut off his retreat.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

We remained there some time, until we had orders to move on and take a position a mile or more nearer Hagerstown.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.

Engelbert shouldered his musket and gave the orders to move on.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann