(n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the scene of the first major military engagement in the south during the second Anglo-Afghan war of 1878, when the British fought a cavalry battle against 1,500 fighters.
(2) He attended cavalry school and then qualified as a lawyer from Turin university in 1943, winning him the lifelong nickname l'Avvocato (the lawyer).
(3) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
(4) The old order may not be about to collapse but the thunder of approaching cavalry is growing louder.
(5) Lucan was born in London to an Anglo-Irish peer, and counted among his forbears the 3rd Earl of Lucan, commander of the British cavalry who, acting on Lord Raglan’s orders, ordered Cardigan to lead the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade .
(6) One grassroots organisation, called I Am The Cavalry, aims to do just that.
(7) On one side is Wandering Medicine, whose great-grandfather helped rout George Armstrong Custer and the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 20 miles west of Lame Deer.
(8) The credit crunch hit, which might have been terminal to a project so palpably of the profligate boom years, but then the cavalry appeared, in the form of the property arm of the ruling family of Qatar.
(9) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(10) I did a bit of research into horse behaviour when I started, but a horse psychologist also came in, and we visited a cavalry battalion, which all fed into my scripts.
(11) The soldier from the Light Dragoons cavalry regiment died on Saturday during an operation in the Nahri Saraj district of Helmand province.
(12) Cardinals call for the cavalry Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Wainwright delivers a pitch against the San Diego Padres.
(13) The Queen's Royal Lancers emerged from a number of regiments which took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean war, Waterloo, the last great British cavalry charge at Omdurman in Sudan in which a young Lieutenant Winston Churchill led a troop, and Ypres in the first world war.
(14) "If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
(15) During the second world war Stalin reinstated Cossack cavalry units, but when peace returned they were again forgotten.
(16) He served in a cavalry regiment, both on the Russian front and in Libya, during the second world war and, after Italy changed sides in 1943, fought with the resistance.
(17) You step over toys, and Brown's wife, Sarah, brings tea - but in a Household Cavalry mug.
(18) The QRL, equipped with Challenger battle tanks, is to merge with another cavalry regiment, victims of the perceived policy to end warfare involving heavy armour.
(19) But such objections proved to be minimal and just over a decade later gay rights had been embraced by the military to the extent that a gay man serving in the household cavalry, lance-corporal James Wharton, was able to host his wedding reception at the regimental barracks .
(20) An argument could be made for even further cuts in artillery regiments and armoured cavalry units as the army gets rid of heavy tanks and howitzers.
Horsemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Horseman
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost a century after they were nearly destroyed by the Bolsheviks, these fierce horsemen – recruited by Ivan the Terrible in 1571 to guard Russia's borders – are back in harness.
(2) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
(3) Thus these tests can be used pre-race to determine whether horsemen have treated their horses with furosemide, and post-race to perform an initial evaluation of whether certain blood concentrations of furosemide have been exceeded.
(4) We can’t find workers this year – it’s been tough,” says Julio Rubio of the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.
(5) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
(6) Blair warned that the Tory-promised referendum on European Union membership would bring Chaos (who you’ll recall is one of the horsemen with whom Blair works in the Middle East Quartet).
(7) First, past extinctions have been driven by what are now becoming very familiar horsemen of a planetary apocalypse: massive volcanic outbursts to choke the atmosphere and poison the seas; the mayhem caused by major asteroid impact; and the wrenching effects of rapid climate change.
(8) Governments invoke the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (software pirates, organised crime, child pornographers, and terrorists) and say that unless they can decrypt bad guys’ hard drives and listen in on their conversations, law and order is a dead letter.
(9) To a credulous public, his experience conjured a romantic world of proud and ruthless Bedouin horsemen silhouetted against a burning sky; of Saladin, scimitars, keffiyehs, and desert hawks.
(10) If you are not a sixth-former from a poor family losing the £30-a-week allowance to keep you in education, if you don't use buses, whose subsidies are cut, and you don't work in the public sector, losing 10% in frozen pay and pension contributions, then at first you may think the four horsemen of the apocalypse have passed you by.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detail of an Assyrian relief from Nimrud showing horses and horsemen of the royal chariot, 725BC.
(12) First, we had Representative Michele Bachmann (Republican, Minneosota) asserting that President Obama's decision to help a segment of the Syrian rebels is proof positive that the four horsemen of the apocalypse would be showing up any day now .
(13) The battle before the meeting was quelled only when police horsemen and police armed with riot shields charged the crowd.
(14) Shakespeare was also on today's bill, with an Italian all-female interpretation of As You Like It, while Zingaro's latest spectacular - which "brings together horsemen, dancers and musicians on stage while 10 Tibetan monks, aged 20 to 70, produce the austere sound of their buffalo voices" - was due to open on Thursday.
(15) In an article for Guardian Review before the publication of his new book, The Kraus Project, he writes: "In my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen.
(16) These immunoassays are sufficiently sensitive to control abuse of the most potent drugs available to horsemen.
(17) (1969), a dully temporising Hollywood account of the life of Che Guevara, in which at one point Sharif’s Guevara is confronted by Jack Palance ’s Fidel Castro with the mumbled expostulation: “Che, sometimes I just don’t understand you.” The Last Valley (1971) and The Horsemen (1971) were poorly rated would-be spectacles.
(18) Britain no longer has a government, it seems, merely four horsemen from Apocalypse plc.
(19) 'Shame, shame, shame on you,' chanted the protesters beyond the lines of Darth Vader-style police, the armoured cars, the horsemen, the National Guard and the dogs.
(20) He advocates avoiding the four horsemen of the relationship apocalypse: criticism, contempt, stonewalling and defensiveness.