Sharpshooters Sentence Examples

At Custozza Magyar hussars, Croats from the Military Frontier, and Tirolese sharpshooters had fought side by side.

Polkinghorne uses the parable to try to prove that God has created universal laws which are analogous to a miraculous preservation from sharpshooters.

Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot.

Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters.

But at that moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse.

Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns.

Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post.

The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by.

Pierre gazed now with dazed eyes at these sharpshooters who ran in couples out of the circle.

Photographers and sharpshooters are familiar with the image of crosshairs at the center of a bullseye.

Union sharpshooters wore dark green jackets to help hide them and served as camouflage.

Confederate sharpshooters wore western-style hats and carried special rifles.