convoys's Usage Examples:

ambushing convoys, destroying ammunition dumps.

We believe he served aboard during the Russian convoys.

The railway communications were constantly damaged, isolated posts and convoys captured, and the raiders always seemed able to avoid contact with the columns sent in pursuit.

The convoys or flotas sailed in October first to Cartagena in South America, and from thence to Nombre de Dios or, in later times, Porto Bello.

loomed ominously about 400 yards away and convoys of trucks and jeeps passed every few minutes.

escort carriers were also deployed to protect convoys.

On the 18th of February 1653 the Dutch admiral, who had now collected the homeward-bound convoys, was off Plymouth on his way back to Holland, and was attacked by the English fleet.

The allies retired early in September and were not even able to molest the British trade convoys.

Meanwhile French corsairs from St Malo and Dieppe had been active in infesting the West Indies and the trade route followed by the Spanish convoys.

Little convoys of about six hutches were pulled along rails by this moving wire rope.

In the past the mobile columns, of which there were over sixty in the field, had always been bound to the railway for supply; now convoys could be pushed out to them along whatever blockhouse line they touched.

In a fresh and sudden spate of violence which began in June 1990 the LTTE targeted police stations and army convoys for attacks.

De Ruyter was sent into the Channel to convoy the outward-bound convoys, and meet the home-coming trade.

Synonyms:

procession,

Antonyms:

retreat,