Air combat mission involving protecting other aircraft during their flight.
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Examples for "escort "
Examples for "escort "
1 The inspector general's report last year said the Sheen escort was routine.
2 The cable news network said the ship was now under military escort .
3 Helped escort the sea serpents up the river to the cocooning grounds.
4 A Turkish military official said the drone would escort its drilling ships.
5 Then they stopped; the soldier escort fired their rules in the air.
1 There also stood the servants with bared heads and the armed escort .
2 The exact locality is known, and Signor Alfieri has an armed escort .
3 They entered the office, where an armed escort of two soldiers stood.
4 Towards noon about a hundred German prisoners passed by under armed escort .
5 An armed escort rode behind them, led by a hard-eyed captain named Urien.
1 Calder himself was to lead them: two light cruisers, sixteen destroyers and fighter escort .
2 My saucer and its automated fighter escort approached the flagship.
3 Two days before he had been providing fighter escort cover for bombers over Berlin, and they had lost four planes.
4 A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York is being diverted to Canada under fighter escort after conflicting signals about a possible hijacking.
5 The blow by 1,150 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, without fighter escort , preceded a limited land attack by French troops...
1 The war seemed quite different to us now that we had an aerial escort .
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