8 examples of rank-and-file in sentences

The slain of higher condition, "embalmed" and iron-cased, were sliding off on the railways to their far homes; the dead of the rank-and-file were being gathered up and committed hastily to the earth; the gravely wounded were cared for hard by the scene of conflict, or pushed a little way along to the neighboring villages; while those who could walk were meeting us, as I have said, at every step in the road.

Said that he was the officer, and that as the rank-and-file were not allowed to pollute the same atmosphere, thought I should score.

And so, with startling incidents and culpable expedients and varying fortunes, the great struggle for political freedom was conducted through the first thirty years of the nineteenth century, and it has been my interesting fortune to know some of the toughest of the combatants both among the leaders and in the rank-and-file.

American city; a rank-and-file history.

American city; a rank-and-file history.

" "I should not like to be that myself," replied Angus, whose early training as a minister's son was always causing him to forget the social gulf which is fixed between officers and the rank-and-file.

Rugby Football "oot here" is a rarity, though Association, being essentially the game of the rank-and-file, flourishes in every green field.

Hence the superlative importance in modern warfare of the Signal Sections of the Royal Engineerstersely described by the rank-and-file as the "Buzzers," or the "Iddy-Umpties.

8 examples of  rank-and-file  in sentences