46 examples of align in sentences

It was the aim of the British government to align Greece and Roumania on the side of the Allies.

Italy alone, of the six great powers, declined to align itself with its formal allies and made a determined effort at the outset to maintain its neutrality.

Fragmentary thoughts, by no means logically aligned.

For the first time since the Great War in South Africa, the Boers made common cause with us, definitely aligned themselves with us in a joint campaign and provided the greatest object lesson of this World War.

A strip of crimson carpet had been stretched across the sand to the very water's edge; on either side of it a dozen decorous footmen were aligned, and between them Monsieur Pelletan proudly marched, his head in air, his back very straight, preceding a big, hooded invalid's chair.

The triplets continued to stand in a neat row, the buttons of their foils aligned and resting on the hardwood floor.

The fate, which he had felt to be fighting with him, he now was equally sure was aligned against him.

As a result, they become more conscious of how their moment-to-moment decisions can be better aligned with the larger issues with which they are concerned.

Specifically, the point toward which units are aligned in successive movements.

When the command is formed in line for ceremonies a noncommissioned officer commanding a company takes post on the right of the right guide after the company has been aligned.

To align the squad, the base file or files having been established: 1. Right(Left), 2. DRESS, 3. FRONT.

OPEN SIGHT: Always align your sights with the front sight squarely in the middle of the "U" or notch of the rear sight, and the top of the front sight even with the upper corners of the "U." (See fig.

At this instant, just before the recoil blots out a view of the sights and target, you should catch with your eye a picture, as it were, of just where on the target your sights were aligned, and call to yourself or to the coach this point.

It is impossible to hold the arm perfectly still, but each time the line of sight is directed on the point of aim a slight additional pressure is applied to the trigger until the piece is finally discharged at one of the moments when the sights are correctly aligned upon the mark.

The detail aligned, the commander of the detail commands: FRONT, salutes, and then reports; "The detail is correct," or "(So many) sergeants, corporals, or privates are absent"; the sergeant major returns the salute with the right hand after the report is made.

The scenery is picturesque on this route, and the whole road from Aix to Chambéry is aligned with remarkably fine large trees.

From the above-mentioned features of the ground, the valley narrowing more and more as you proceed, from the high mountains that align it and from its sinuosities, it follows that at every angle or curve caused by these sinuosities, you appear as if you were shut out from all the rest of the world and could proceed no further.

The French, on blowing up the ramparts, laid out the space occupied by them in walks aligned by trees.

These streets are broad and aligned with the finest buildings in Genoa.

The others deserve rather the names of lanes and alleys, tho' exceedingly well paved and aligned with excellent houses and shops.

He relaxed and aligned in her direction.

[Footnote 98: Mommsen in his Roman History (third German edition, p. 627, note 1), remarks that Dio must have confused the son of Bocchus with the son of Massinissa, Arabio, who certainly did align himself with the Pompeian party (Appian, Civil Wars, IV, 54).

Another was the old Rue Royale, its squat ground-floor domiciles drooping their mossy eaves half across the pinched sidewalks and confusedly trying to alternate and align themselves with tall brick houses and shops whose ample two-and three-story balconies were upheld, balustraded, and overhung by slender garlandries of iron openwork as graceful and feminine as a lace mantilla.

The Revolution was a struggle within the British Empire, in which were aligned on one side the American Whigs supported by the English Whigs, and on the other side the English Tories supported by the American Tories.

This done I moved the rifle over until I had the sight aligned against the dark shape.

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