Search for crossword answers and clues
"While we were ___ through . . . "
Answer for the clue ""While we were ___ through . . . " ", 8 letters:
marching
Alternative clues for the word marching
Word definitions for marching in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops . Marching is often performed to march music , and often associated with military parades . Marching is part of basic training in the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
March \March\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Marching .] [F. marcher, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L. marcus hammer. Cf. Mortar .] To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind); "it was a long march"; "we heard the sound of marching" [syn: march ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An action described by the verb "to march". vb. (present participle of march English)
Usage examples of marching.
But no, my hopes were too quick, and just as quickly dashed when I saw Morningstar marching alongside the annoyingly alive Sir Coreolis.
Two were still marching but not able to fight, although Anther might be able to return shortly.
Some of his short stories and novelettes have been mainstays for the anthologists ever since and have been adapted for television production, as for example The Little Black Bag and The Marching Morons.
Softly at first, but as the hours went by and the pain deepened and the situation worsened, I screamed out lyrics to old Home Guard marching songs, then bawdy limericks I had learned as a bargeman on the Kans River, then merely screams.
When Lady Bellamy arrived on the following morning, she found him marching up and down the dining-room, in the worst of his bad tempers, and that was a very shocking temper indeed.
They sat and lay on the earth, grass tickling their chins and bellies, the occasional six-legged explorer marching gravely up a leg or flank.
They had helped to cram the ideals down the throats of their young soldiers, had sent them marching off to war in colorful uniforms like a bunch of bespangled monkeys.
Brian Boru came marching east with a great army gathered from throughout Ireland.
But Buli the Whirlwind--for he it was who made the warriors and their gins to run fast through the scrub, who laid low the brigalow trees, and carved spears therefrom, who with his weapons of war swept like a tempest over the herds of white men, and killed the white men in the camps they had made, therefore was he named the Whirlwind--he, Whirlwind, would swear now before the sister of the Pleiades, Cloud-Daughter, that he and his warriors, old men, and gins, would obey the word of Cloud-Daughter till, after many days marching through the scrubs, they should reach Maianbar the Deep Tank.
Imagine the looks on the faces of Felldoh, Ballaw and Rowanoak if he, Brome, came marching back with a score or so of slaves that he had rescued.
The old man gestured at the platoon marching down Jagannath Marg even as he spoke.
Marching toward the courtyard, between the ranks of riflemen, The Shadow glanced behind him and saw the marimba player following, with his bulky instrument.
After its death, the regulation of the markless sea would disguise its latitude, marching over its former position as though it had never existed.
Some of their haunted light shone in his eyes as he gathered frayed nerves and related details of the Alliance armed force now mustered and marching from Morvain.
Everywhere there was mustering and marching to succour the flower of the English army, which was already in Somersetshire.