marshal - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • inform: Inform the flag marshal of oil etc. Do not make unnecessary signals to the competitors.

Object

  • troop: Substitute Sam Webb, returning from rugby in Australia, took the game to Dagenham and Mark Dempsey marshaled the troops with some authority.
  • army: He's seen there as marshaling the army of demons.

Adjective modifier

  • federal: They're all on their way to a new maximum security prison, being transported by air by a bunch of federal marshals.
  • armed: Armed sky marshals will routinely sit next to you.
  • trained: Ensure that trained Fire Marshals are appointed for each of their offices.
  • chief: Dave New will be asked if he wishes to be chief marshal.
  • experienced: They provided effectively all the marshals apart from one important junctions where I wanted to put an experienced race marshal.

Noun used with modifier

  • dive: For a trainee dive marshal, life's a lot simpler.
  • taxi: A pilot scheme run by Bristol council was so popular that the council now employs taxi marshals permanently.
  • sky: Have you picked the Federal Pen the sky marshals are to be housed in yet?
  • air: The offender was duly taken care of by a US air marshal.
  • field: I shouted: " General, I am an officer, a field marshal!
  • flag: Inform the flag marshal of oil etc. Do not make unnecessary signals to the competitors.

Preposition: of

  • army: Field marshal of an in-house army that rivals that of a middle-sized firm, Ahmed commands 80 lawyers plus another 50 fee-earners.

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