WordNet
n. a formation of troops
Usage examples of "military formation".
Sure enough, there were two of them flying in a nice tight military formation, F- 15 Eagle fighters, circling the center of the island in a classic display of protection for one’.
The nearest flight of coralskippers set on a basic intercept course, not even bothering to deploy into military formation.
Instead of getting into something resembling a military formation, they wound up huddled in a mass against the wall.
Leyel moved toward the elevated desk where a fat, sleepy-looking middle-aged woman was lazily paging through long columns of figures, which stood in the air before her in military formation.
He handed Lambsblood a sheet of printed material: FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL TASKS, WHICH CAN BE ASSIGNED TO THE SPECIAL GROUP (SG) BY THE LEADER: (A) THE SG WILL FORM AN ARMED STANDING MILITARY FORMATION CONSISTING OF THE STRENGTH OF THREE REGIMENTAL EQUIVALENTS AND ONE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE DIRECT COMMAND OF THE LEADER.
But this was the first time that his people had fought, in military formation, against their old enemies, and they were elated.
If it were not a military formation, the huge converted aircraft hangar may well have been empty by the time the grand prize, the coveted Fairchild Trophy, ever made it into the winner's hands.
The dwarves' spotless armor and perfect military formation as they paced a perimeter around their leader's tent gave Azoun an idea.
The forest was very tall skinny black trees closely packed together like the massed pikes of a military formation, the eruptions of moonlight between fleeing clouds like the bursting of bombs, and Jack heard, or dreamed, the tramping of feet and blowing of trumpets.
A wild mob without direction or purpose of any kind, except to kill whoever was closest, took the place of the military formation that had existed only five minutes before.
If it were a private company, that was serious competition, though it was probably the Swiss army perhaps even a military formation disguised as policemen maybe with some technical assistance from the German GSG9.