7 sentences with 'march'

Example sentences and phrases with the word march and other words derived from it.

« Late the day before, a protest march against immigrants had ended in a terrible riot: stones and firebombs were blown up, some policemen were injured, windows were smashed and cars were burned. »
« A later (almost certainly fabricated) account of the aftermath of the battle claimed that Philipides was sent back to Athens, still on the march, to report the victory. He collapsed dead of exhaustion, but in the process ran the first "marathon". »
« Despite the loss of the Persian navy, Xerxes' army was able to march easily through Greece and plunder several polis and farmlands; it even sacked Athens itself, which had been evacuated earlier. »
« Roman soldiers were expected to be able to march more than 20 miles in a normal day's march carrying a heavy load. »
« Significantly, however, Bismarck persuaded the Prussian king not to order a march on Vienna and the occupation of Austria itself; Bismarck's aim had been to eliminate Austria from contention as a potential ruling power in Germany, not to attempt to conquer and control it. »
« By the end of World War I, Germany was losing. His own General Staff informed the Kaiser of this fact; with American troops and munitions flooding into the country, it was simply a matter of time before the Allies could march in force on Germany. »
« Jewish prisoners who had survived up to that point were, against all odds, forced to march up to twenty miles through the Polish winter, then loaded onto cattle cars and shipped to Germany. »
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