How To Use Convoy In A Sentence

On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
A bout of fierce fighting gave the rest of the English fleet enough time to come to the rescue and begin attacking the convoy. Times, Sunday Times
The mist is sill rising in the lanes of a quiet farm as a convoy of cars and trailers appears. Times, Sunday Times

And that the children of the unwanted should be those that returned to the old world in convoys and troops ships to liberate Italy and France and Holland and the countries which didn't want their ancestors is an idea that's almost Shakespearean. The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project
So intent was the big cat on getting her lunch that she chased her prey directly into the midst of a convoy of cars carrying tourists through the park.
The movement of part of the Russian humanitarian convoy provided a further glimmer of encouragement last night. Times, Sunday Times
We are part of the convoy right now and it happened about 10 kilometers right out of town, a place called Iron Gate, where there's a military checkpoint run by government troops. CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2003
The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
After midnight the storm finally blew itself out, and the lightless convoy moved out.
Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists.
The convoy itself encountered numerous difficulties; mechanical and logistical problems were compounded by stormy clashes of personality.
There'sunlikely to be firm news about the convoy's progress for some time.
The troop carrying convoy would then sail from southern English ports protected by an escort of frigates and corvettes.
The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles. Times, Sunday Times
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Motorists gave way as the convoy hurtled past and three motorway toll booths raised their barriers to let the cars speed through. Times, Sunday Times
An air balloon will monitor the convoys. Times, Sunday Times
The car was torched where it lay and the convoy moved on. The Times Literary Supplement
The convoy wound its way through the West Bank.
Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok. Delivery Firms Help in Myanmar and China
I had two bodyguards and we would travel in a convoy of not less than two armoured vehicles.
They hijacked vehicles, even UN convoys, and staged kidnappings for ransom.
The UN convoy was mined on its way to the border.
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
So, one beautiful September morning I left Srinagar, the capital of J&K, wangling a ride with an Army Signals major in his jeep proceeding to Leh as a part of an Army convoy, the then district headquarters of Ladakh. Kargil - as I remember it
The bride was riding pillion on Jim's bike while Peggy was sitting primly in the only sidecar in the convoy. MAN AND WIFE
The convoy was snowed up on the main road.
Convoys of troops and helicopter gunships have been observed leaving military installations around the capital.
In fact, she was travelling in a convoy of three vehicles when all three drivers were stopped.
He is hoping people will donate fodder and hay for a convoy for those struggling to feed their stock.
Tanks moved in small convoys along the highways. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
Along the edges of the convoys sailed a variety of ships: graceful sloops, chunky corvettes, slim gunboats like the Dutch Soemba, antisubmarine patrol craft, fast PT boats, and everywhere sleek destroyers.
Are we to see “convoys” of fat guys in pickups and camo posturing on our streets? Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move
One day in December, Ty was on patrol in Anbar province when an Iraqi insurgent detonated a carload of explosives beside the convoy's troop truck.
ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE keep all three to a minimum. maintain convoy integrity, mutual support and momentum .. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
Local authorities appear to have quelled the protests, which erupted last week after a Mongolian herder was killed by a coal truck driven by a member of China's dominant Han ethnic group as a group of herders sought to block a convoy from crossing pastureland. China Says Foreigners Fuel Unrest in Mongolia
If their vehicles aren't armored, the policy is that they are convoyed on other vehicles.
Watching thousands of these beaked, black-and-white sea birds as they convoy together and travel across blinding white landscapes might come across as a boring, repetitive sight.
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That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American. Day of Honey
I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
So we started - we said, ‘Let's do a convoy, and drive a bunch of vehicles, pre-owned cars and trailers, down here.’
These scouts can reconnoiter routes, conduct screening missions, and escort convoys because they do not need extra equipment, additional troops, or special training.
Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints.
Once the police convoy arrived at the Canal Bridge, it halted, and the men in the leading cars debussed.
The Beckham convoy pulled up at the grand entrance, usually reserved for royalty and visiting heads of state, inside the palace quadrangle.
Veterans raised their arms in salute for one minute, then another as the convoy moved away. The Sun
A convoy of heavy trucks rumbled past.
Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
By now we were escorting as many as six to eight convoys of humanitarian aid a day for the UNHCR. Broken Lives
The idea that the Mexican state is on the verge of collapse or that narco-violence is relentlessly sweeping north echo the kind of hyperbolized threat of Africanized bees or Sandinista convoys swarming our southern border during the Reagan era. Ted Lewis: Bad Assumptions Guide US Policy on Day of Obama Visit to Mexico
With drivers pandering along at such slow speeds, it hardly surprising that pile ups occur when the margin for error is so small with vast tracts of traffic all moving in tightly knit convoys.
Later my dad bought a hardtop Chevy pickup with a three-quarter-ton capacity, and hired three others to drive convoy-style up I-95, or what he called the "Reefer Express.
Shortly before the incident, his convoy had lost vehicle- to- vehicle contact, while electronic countermeasures were being deployed against the threat of roadside blasts. Times, Sunday Times
It is harder to attack a convoy, however, if it is moving at a high rate of speed.
The convoy had many days left of this slow travel ahead of it.
Motorbike outriders and officers in high-speed cars made up the top security ‘blue light, category A’ convoy for the 200-mile journey to Belmarsh prison in London.
Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok late last month. Express-Delivery Firms Share
These days, you'd have a whole horde of wardens descending on that convoy in a swarm. Times, Sunday Times
The convoy was attacked by submarines.
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
The convoy includes a huge ox-cart, bearing a yurt, the traditional round Mongol felt tent.
Drive around in a convoy of smaller vehicles? Times, Sunday Times
Many had been brought in convoys from outlying districts. Times, Sunday Times
When the governor of Abyan and his brother, members of the same tribe as Mr. Baham, rushed to Mudiyah to investigate, gunmen ambushed their multicar convoy en route, killing the governor's brother. Tribal Ties Impede Yemen's War on al Qaeda
Voice over Police are already monitoring the movements of travellers convoys and the exclusion order will give them widespread powers of arrest.
He said the squadron trained in the usual cavalry tasks such as advances, convoy escort, route reconnaissance, clearance ops and VCPs.
The Airmen then convoyed to the city in early April where they replaced a group of Soldiers and became the 2632nd Aerospace Expeditionary Force Transportation Company.
The player will often see the old Dreadnaught class corvette acting as escort to a convoy.
Their convoy was hit by a suicide car bomber and three friends were medevacked with severe burns.
Motorists gave way as the convoy hurtled past and three motorway toll booths raised their barriers to let the cars speed through. Times, Sunday Times
The popular show opens with the ambush of a police convoy. The Sun
On the morning of 11 February 1944, off the Norwegian coast, Stubborn sighted a convoy of seven ships escorted by four trawlers, a whaler and an aircraft.
I'm running along thinking about baby-faced, flak-jacketed American soldiers in their armored convoys when I glance at the ground and stop dead in my tracks.
He also moved to dispel what he said was the myth that Queen Mary never sailed in convoy because she was too quick.
By now we were escorting as many as six to eight convoys of humanitarian aid a day for the UNHCR. Broken Lives
The first vessels moved away from the docks while canvas crept up the masts and sails were sheeted home, and they watched in fascination as the entire convoy began to move.
The convoy's lead vehicles served to clear the route and prevent vehicles from entering from side streets, ramps, and other approaches.
Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
The 32 OCS then convoyed and deployed all the equipment to Douglas Field, Fort Sill Army Post, and another local training site, all under field conditions.
We expected to see great convoys of lorries and trucks emblazoned with UN initials juddering down the coastal road bearing relief and building materials.
The convoy stopped, and Sergeant Jones was busy typing on his text message system, one of five communication alternatives.
This operative then either alerts the triggerman or triggers the device himself when a convoy approaches.
Roosevelt had already pushed neutrality to the limit and had assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic.
Their protest consisted of driving in convoy very slowly round and round the approach roundabouts to the Airport, thus creating massive traffic congestion and denying access to legitimate users.
Often truck convoys and support units were out of range of each other's radios.
True to his word the travellers left in a convoy of caravans on Monday afternoon.
Incidents whereby civilians try to ram convoy vehicles are on the rise.
The troop carrying convoy would then sail from southern English ports protected by an escort of frigates and corvettes.
Convoys of Highland garrons, laden with whisky ‘ankers’ or casks would regularly set out over the hills to supply markets throughout the north east and beyond.
Slowed by heavy rains, the convoy was shielded by helicopter gunships and armoured personnel carriers.
The guide flew with us an hour to Luxor, where we joined a bus convoy for the 10-hour round trip to the legendary temples of Abydos and Dendera with many security checkpoints on the way -- the Egyptians really overdo it to make tourists feel safe. Scott S. Smith: Egypt the Eternal
And in 1993 accredited journalists moving in armed convoys were not the same target as they are today. Times, Sunday Times
The movement of part of the Russian humanitarian convoy provided a further glimmer of encouragement last night. Times, Sunday Times
When you've been pressed into service as "sergeant-general" of the Malagassy army, or forced to convoy a bog-trotting idiot figged up as Sinbad the Sailor through an enemy army, or dragooned into impersonating a poxed-up Danish prince - why, what's a slave rebellion more or less? THE NUMBERS
Meanwhile, anarchy reigns in the countryside as bandits, vowing to help the poor, raid and slaughter government convoys.
On Sunday the pallets were loaded on to a convoy of lorries, trucks and vans and taken to Stansted Airport near London where they were transferred to a plane bound for Sri Lanka.
the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific
A bout of fierce fighting gave the rest of the English fleet enough time to come to the rescue and begin attacking the convoy. Times, Sunday Times
Convoys of World War II vehicles and former soldiers trekking across the famous beaches evoked memories of the crucial push that eventually toppled the Third Reich.
His destroyer also escorted Arctic convoys to Russia. Times, Sunday Times
She still reached her convoy rendezvous in Loch Ewe on time, but while waiting for sailing orders lost her starboard anchor when the cable snapped.
An earth mover was parked nearby in a convoy of military vehicles including one troop carrier full of soldiers. Times, Sunday Times
The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles. Times, Sunday Times
The mist is sill rising in the lanes of a quiet farm as a convoy of cars and trailers appears. Times, Sunday Times
Finally he saw a convoy of four large, roofed skimmers surrounded by rovers and floating turrets set out from the shuttleport.
In the First World War it was a rendezvous point for convoys travelling to Norway.
The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
Town leaders did not raise a furor, and dozens of families stood outside their homes watching the convoy as it rolled toward the battle site.
Every day, for 350 days, we organized the trains and convoyed to the brigade support area as a logistics package.
Everywhere there were parades and flag-bedecked, horn-honking rickshaw convoys, with young men, many of them unemployed, shouting and setting off masses of firecrackers. Buddha’s Savage Peace
A soldier was killed and two others injured Saturday when their convoy was ambushed by armed militants in Mizrana, in the Kabylia region about 110 kilometres (69 miles) east of the capital, the sources said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Suddenly something went wrong with her steering, and she veered sharply into the path of one of the convoy's escort trawlers.
ROBERTSON: Well, what the Taliban has been trying to do, according to NATO commanders, is turn from a phase one insurgency, which is small groups of armed men, trying to take control of perhaps a road or a strategic road junction, trying to fight limited skirmishes, to ambush convoys, to turn it into what they call a phase two insurgency. CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007
Entire villages convoyed north, on tractors, in minibuses, crammed into taxis charging extortionate rates to ferry the poor. A Privilege to Die
I remember how Convoy, B.J and the Bear and Movin' On had 70% of my entire 6th grade class at a private prep school discussing the finer distinctions between Kenworths and cab-over Peterbilts. "For McCain, being cool meant being a rogue, not a policy wonk; but Obama manages to be a cool College Bowl type...."
Everyone here has heard the stories - or maybe, been on a convoy through the green zone, briefly glimpsed the way that other half lives.
Veterans raised their arms in salute for one minute, then another as the convoy moved away. The Sun
Michael claims that while in Damascus he saw three separate convoys of luxury Iraqi licensed vehicles, driving under armed escort.
A couple of tanks convoyed the trucks across the border.
The convoy had an escort of ten destroyers.
He imagines convoys of robotic cars, zipping down highways. Times, Sunday Times
As the convoy arrived at the dock, the lorry doors opened and the exhausted, terrified lambs poured out, trying desperately to stay upright and avoid trampling each other.
We stopped to let a convoy of cars pass. Times, Sunday Times
The car was torched where it lay and the convoy moved on. The Times Literary Supplement
A couple of unexploded mortars are also found and dealt with before the convoy swings for home, moving with extreme caution.
When federal troops turned up they ran into an armed convoy and came under fire. Times, Sunday Times
A combination of convoy escort, active patrolling, and strongpoint operations has been the most successful techniques used so far.
He picked the place so he could observe the convoy from up close with his optic probe.
The convoy was comprised of dozens of vehicles transporting long-range artillery rockets.
Traditionally it is a peaceful event, without confrontation between police and what they describe as the hippy convoy.
The convoy commodore sees to the internal management of the convoy.
A small convoy of Talons had disembarked from the host of the armada and was cutting through the waves at near breakneck speeds.
The attackers were repelled by the convoy's military escort. Times, Sunday Times
We were at Ben Yusif, close to Cairo for two weeks and then moved up to Tobruk, again guarding convoys of troops. Robert Cunliffe
Tanks moved in small convoys along the highways. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
Among recent preparations by the airforce was the Israeli attack of a weapons convoy in Sudan bound for militants in the Gaza Strip. Launchbeat - middleeast.org
He had previous convictions after pretending to be a fleet manager sending aid convoys to Bosnia and twice posing as a police officer.
Land convoys and helicopters bore Western evacuees to Yamoussoukro, where US military cargo planes waited to fly them to Abidjan, or neighbouring Ghana.
In the darkening evening the horizon bulged with a dome of fluorescent white light glowing against the black of the sky as the convoy began to arrive.
Knowing that it would call up the fighter bombers, the convoy scattered into whatever cover could be found.
Peering out the window, Donovan made mental notes of the activity he saw along the way: convoys of trucks hauling cedar logs from the interior, workers by the hundreds toiling in muddy rice fields wearing only loincloths, small carts on the road drawn by women, even children, delivery wagons attached to rubber-tired bicycles, young Japanese men in kimonos playing baseball in makeshift fields. Wild Bill Donovan
An armed convoy of police vehicles swept into the prison complex an hour before his court hearing.
American military scientists have already shown that they can link resupply lorries to create automated convoys. Times, Sunday Times
The British had recommended that steel be diverted from the construction of battleships and heavy cruisers to convoy escorts and landing craft.
Two fighters buzzed the convoy as it approached the coast.
A convoy of lorries was seen heading towards B - 52 bombers at RAF Fairford yesterday as the countdown to war in Iraq entered its final hours.
But at his being in the farthest parts of Italy, the disappointment of company, or of a safe convoy, or the uncertainty of returns of money into those remote parts, denied him that happiness, which he did often occasionally mention with a deploration. The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 1-49
Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
The convoy moved on and the man was left for dead in the middle of the road. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes goods are sold in packages: if I sold you a car, I would have sold you a service package and tires etc. — convoyed sales. Archive 2009-02-01
An earth mover was parked nearby in a convoy of military vehicles including one troop carrier full of soldiers. Times, Sunday Times
Nearly 3,000 British sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives on the convoys.
In Pisa, over 400 police were assembled to accompany a convoy from the railway station to the military airbase.
When federal troops turned up they ran into an armed convoy and came under fire. Times, Sunday Times
Days and days of hit-and-run attacks on Alliance convoys were starting to take their toll on Enygma Trigent and Daemon Squadron.
Within minutes, the plane bombed the front and rear of the convoy, sealing off the possibility of escape.
They reconnoitred for surface fleets, and helped to guard Russian convoys.
In 1554 he was appointed captain-general of the "flota" or convoy which carried the trade between Spain and America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
All went well to begin with, as he managed to intercept and to capture a convoy of Spanish ships sent to revictual the place, and had he been content to wait he might have counted with certainty on reducing the garrison by starvation, as it depended on this very convoy for its supplies. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
He was in a military convoy that was hit by a roadside bomb. Times, Sunday Times
Israeli media said the bomb detonated near the convoy taking the Israeli ambassador to Jordan, Dani Nevo, to the bridge, also known as the Allenby bridge, 50km west of Amman. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The three squadrons of the wing were now able to deliver concerted attacks against convoys. Times, Sunday Times
The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
Italy, the disappointment of company, or of a safe convoy, or the uncertainty of returns of money into those remote parts, denied him that happiness, which he did often occasionally mention with a deploration. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
In 1975 a major air offensive, again involving RAF pilots, lasted six weeks destroying ammunition dumps and command and control centres, resupply convoys, gun emplacements and heavy artillery.
Roads are excellent and many of the prime areas are accessible by 2WD vehicles although for the most remote areas it is only safe to travel in convoys of 4WD vehicles.
The convoy of Mian Nawaz Sharif is moving towards GPO chowk along with a large number of supporters. Severe clashes reported between the activists and Police in Pakistan
A convoy of truckies rolled into Canberra today to express their anger at the planned changes.
BOETTCHER: The convoy has disappeared into what they call the fog of war. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2003
Traditionally it is a peaceful event, without confrontation between police and what they describe as the hippy convoy.
Navy and merchant vessels, also using lamps, still use Morse signals in convoy while running under radio silence.
Police said they also had reports of looting of relief convoys and offered armed escorts to anyone who requested it.
The convoy's 64 ships were initially protected by one RCN destroyer and three corvettes; two additional corvettes joined while the convoy was under attack by at least eight submarines.
Ship-watchers, mainly Norwegians, were also installed on the Norwegian coast, where German warships lay in wait for Arctic convoys, and reports from them enabled attacks to be launched against them by aircraft and midget submarines.
The harsh reality, again, is, as reported earlier by CNN, their vehicles are often convoyed further north.
Originally intended as motor gunboats for convoy escort, they were converted to torpedo boats while under construction.
The President's convoy rolled past the crowds
There is a roadblock somewhere further ahead and the convoy stalls for the night.
The roads are dotted with checkpoints and military convoys power up and down the roads. Times, Sunday Times
The supply ships travelled in convoy.
The convoy of mud-spattered four-by-fours has pulled in at the side of the B1224 near Rufforth.
For example, you are often tasked to accompany and protect convoys of food or refugees.
They were also designated to protect truck convoys and counter ambush forces.
Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
Her security guard had encouraged her to change cars in the convoy at the last minute. Times, Sunday Times
Drive around in a convoy of smaller vehicles? Times, Sunday Times
As the sun came out, long after the anti-European convoy had passed downriver (strangely, towards continental Europe), a loudhailer bus could be heard ranting about the British National Party.
The convoy was protected by three destroyers, a minesweeper, two corvettes and a trawler as it left Scotland.
The convoy wound its way through the West Bank.
Anthony Shadid reports today that a series of six car bombs “struck markets, a police convoy and a gaggle of workers in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods Monday, killing 32 people and wounding more than 120 in one of the most violent days in the capital in months.” Wonk Room » Claims Of Iraq ‘Success’ Still Unreality-Based
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
As the convoy arrived at the dock, the lorry doors opened and the exhausted, terrified lambs poured out, trying desperately to stay upright and avoid trampling each other.
Demonstrators planted themselves right in front of the convoy of trucks.
Yesterday a second humanitarian convoy reached the town carrying food and medical supplies. Times, Sunday Times
I was travelling slowly in a convoy, sedately chipping away at my underseal, when a white van driver decided he would create a bow wave of rocks and a wake of expletives by overtaking the line of traffic at about 60 mph.
One was killed in an ambush on a convoy, and two died when their armoured vehicle hit a landmine. Times, Sunday Times
Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.

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