How to Use convoy in a Sentence

convoy

1 of 2 verb

• The tankers were convoyed by warships.
• After just over an hour convoying around Riyadh, they were arrested, then were freed to their male guardians within 24 hours.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Southbound traffic was being convoyed and northbound traffic was restricted to 45 mph in the right lane only.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The crashes occurred while police were convoying motorists in foggy conditions.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• With fog expected to become even thicker Tuesday afternoon, Causeway police began convoying northbound traffic at 3 p.m., with southbound motorists restricted to one lane at 45 mph.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• The tankers were convoyed by warships.
• After just over an hour convoying around Riyadh, they were arrested, then were freed to their male guardians within 24 hours.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Southbound traffic was being convoyed and northbound traffic was restricted to 45 mph in the right lane only.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The crashes occurred while police were convoying motorists in foggy conditions.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• With fog expected to become even thicker Tuesday afternoon, Causeway police began convoying northbound traffic at 3 p.m., with southbound motorists restricted to one lane at 45 mph.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 19 Dec. 2017

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convoy

2 of 2 noun

• The President always travels in a convoy.
• On the road route to Port Sudan, the U.S. military is able to monitor convoys with drones.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Those who had joined the convoy would not be prosecuted.
  — Julian E. Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• Some vehicles in the convoy were hit, forcing others behind them to veer off the path.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Instead, Ukraine used Turkish Bayraktar drones to bomb the head and tail of the column, while Ukrainian artillery battered the rest of the convoy.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Niger's military brought in troops from other parts of the country in a convoy of about 40 pickup trucks.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 Aug. 2023
• Toward the front of the convoy, a flag in Chechen colors is visible, and a voice is heard making reference to Prigozhin.
  — Samuel Oakford, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• Four aid convoys that reached Gaza from neighboring Egypt in recent days have brought in water and food.
  — Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The aid convoys allowed into Gaza so far have carried a fraction of what’s needed.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• The United Nations said the pause enabled it to scale up the delivery of food, water, and medicine to the largest volume since the resumption of aid convoys on Oct. 21.
  — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• And while two convoys of aid trucks crossed into Gaza from Egypt over the weekend, relief agencies warned that the needs of the 2 million people in the enclave are vast.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• Laurie Allen brought up the rear of a desperate convoy that tried to drive to safety as the Maui wildfires raged around them in early August.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Finally on Thursday morning, a U.N. aid convoy crossed into the area through Turkey, the first since the earthquake.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• And Sunday, a second convoy of 14 trucks entered through the Rafah border crossing.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
• As Liberty and the convoy of Liberland boats made their way along the river, the first police boat fell away, passing the baton to the next patrol stationed up the line.
  — WIRED, 2 July 2023
• The dramatic putsch ended Saturday when Prigozhin reached a deal with the Kremlin and halted the convoy about 120 miles south of Moscow.
  — Time, 26 June 2023
• The Israel Defense Forces said its troops fired only warning shots that were not directed at the convoy.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• Its convoys have now been halted again for safety reasons.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
• Keeping food and drinks cold is an essential aspect of any tailgate, road trip, or potluck convoy.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 27 May 2023
• And endless convoys of trucks and armored vehicles marked Z and V breaking through along most of the Ukrainian border.
  — TIME, 2 Mar. 2024
• As Barsan spoke, a group of volunteers from the city of Gaziantep arrived in a convoy of cars, delivering slippers and other clothes.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Satellite images show the 40-mile-long Russian convoy near Kyiv has largely been dispersed 43.
  — Marcus Mabry, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Her convoy was ambushed, leading to the capture and eventual deaths of several troops, Piestewa among them.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The company has promised to deliver semitrucks that would be able to follow each other autonomously in a convoy.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• Officials said the boats happened to be traveling at the same time, but were miles from each other and were not operating as a convoy.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• There are low and high frequency oscillations and convoys of spike trains.
  — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the late afternoon, the Rams team buses follow a police convoy through the raucous parking lots outside the stadium.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• In peacetime, the ships would have escorted convoys from the United States to Europe through a gauntlet of Soviet submarines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• Despite those safeguards, a series of critical errors led the troops to open fire on the convoy, according to the results of the military’s preliminary inquiry.
  — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• At night, political convoys rushed through the sandy alleyways of Dakar, the coastal capital, pumping out music and slogans and distributing fliers.
  — Mady Camara, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024