Word Finder - march

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A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

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A political rally or parade

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• parade
• protest
• rally

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Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

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Steady forward movement or progression.

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the march of time

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• advancement
• process
• progression

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(euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

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To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.

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To cause someone to walk somewhere.

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To go to war; to make military advances.

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To make steady progress.

March came in like a lion with a snow storm.

Her angry march turned into a stroll.

You can't just march into a person's life and disrupt it.

You know that date you asked my ma about, March fourth?

Then he commanded his army to march back to the city of Antium.

March came in like a lion, didn't it?

It was way back in March.

They were glad enough to march back without it.

The plants she had started in the house in March thrived.

While the case might be officially closed, Dean felt an obliga­tion to Randy Byrne, as well as his own curiosity, to follow up the March fourth Whitney Motel incident.

Who was he to march in and start criticizing?

Naples, easily worsted by the French, under Miollis, left the British alliance, and made peace by the treaty of Florence (March 1801), agreeing to withdraw her troops from the Papal States, to cede Piombino and the Presidii (in Tuscany) to France and to close her ports to British ships and commerce.

At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club.

March, April, May are spring.

In any of these eventualities the flank march that brought salvation might have proved disastrous.

Immediately after the death of archbishop Arundel he was nominated by the king to the archbishopric, elected on the 4th of March, translated by papal bull on the 28th of April, and received the pall without going to Rome for it on the 24th of July.

An investigation was begun in March 1559, and as the result of a conviction for heresy the exhumed body of Jorisz was burned, together with his portrait, on the 13th of May 1559.

On the 26th of August 1278 the rival armies met on the banks of the river March near Diirnkrut, and Ottakar was defeated and killed.

He died suddenly, immediately after the death of his wife, 'on the18th of March 1907, at Paris, and with her was buried in the Pantheon.

It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

March on, destroy the Russian army....

Next day, the third of March, soon after one o'clock, two hundred and fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagration, to dinner.

Here is one I got at Wagram" (he touched his side) "and a second at Smolensk"--he showed a scar on his cheek--"and this leg which as you see does not want to march, I got that on the seventh at the great battle of la Moskowa.

If the position of the Russian army really began to improve from the time of that march, it does not at all follow that the march was the cause of it.

Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.

His marriage in March 1518 was arranged by the pope with Madeleine la Tour d'Auvergne, a royal princess of France, whose daughter was the Catherine de' Medici celebrated in French history.

He in turn referred it to the bishops of Spires and Worms, who gave decision in March 1514 in favour of Reuchlin.

His constitution of the 1st of March 1519 condemned the king of Spain's claim to refuse the publication of papal bulls.

It was provided that the act should continue in force only till the 31st of March 1902, but a further act in 1901 extended the period by four years, and in 1905 its operation was extended to the 31st of March 1910.

His real concern for her was evinced shortly before the birth of their son, the king of Rome,when he gave orders that if the life of both mother and child could not be saved, that of the mother should be saved if possible (loth of March 1811).

It was ready to march upon the city and destroy it.

This lovely, sweet-natured lady offered to teach me herself, and we began the twenty-sixth of March, 1890.

I was like little Ascanius, who followed with unequal steps the heroic strides of Aeneas on his march toward mighty destinies.

The first letter is dated March 6, 1887, three days after her arrival in Tuscumbia.

Bagration was to make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as possible.

Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.

On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.

On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime.

And the troops retired one more, last, day's march, and abandoned Moscow to the enemy.

I remembered your mentioning the perfect attendance—how your son and husband had a little bet going but his personnel record shows he took a day off, on the fourth of March.

There are 14 cards for the fourth of March.

He did not mention the March fourth date Byrne was absent from work.

On the 13th of April 1396 he obtained ratification of the parsonage of St Stephen's, Walbrook, presented on the 30th of March by the abbot of Colchester, no doubt through his brother Robert, who restored the church and increased its endowment.

William died suddenly on the 17th of March 1849.

The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading their cleanliness and discipline.

A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as much as a sailor is by his ship.

As soon as day dawned the march began.

It was impossible not to retreat a day's march, and then in the same way it was impossible not to retreat another and a third day's march, and at last, on the first of September when the army drew near Moscow--despite the strength of the feeling that had arisen in all ranks--the force of circumstances compelled it to retire beyond Moscow.

That flank march might not only have failed to give any advantage to the Russian army, but might in other circumstances have led to its destruction.

Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.