Example Sentences

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"Together with our partners we’re working on an integrated & echeloned air defense system. We are preparing for winter on the battlefield," he wrote.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2022

General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth."

From Time Magazine Archive

Details such as the echeloned curls, sinuous eyebrows, and almond-shaped eyes of the Girl with a Late Period Bob were painstakingly sculpted.

From Time Magazine Archive

They should be echeloned in depth as far as practicable.

From Military Instructors Manual by Schoonmaker, Oliver

Not too many should be placed in the front line, and they should be echeloned in depth so as to confuse their disposition.

From Military Instructors Manual by Schoonmaker, Oliver