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For CORPS, below is one of 43 sentences:
From General Wintzingerode's reports, I see that an enemy corps of ten thousand men is moving on the Petersburg road.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORPS
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corps
 n.  an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions; a body of people associated together
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Such a course is at once more regular and more smooth of working, since a corps of subordinates has but one director, whereas a director may have a hundred subordinates.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI
3  I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
4  Przebyszewski and his corps had laid down their arms.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
5  I think it would be best not to bring it before the Emperor, but to apply to the commander of the corps.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
6  The diplomatic corps and the Emperor himself were to be present.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
7  One of Platov's Cossacks says that Platov's corps is joining up with the main army and that Kutuzov has been appointed commander-in-chief.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VII
8  I'm galloping to the commander of the corps.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
9  After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIII
10  Our corps was stationed on a hillside.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
11  From General Wintzingerode's reports, I see that an enemy corps of ten thousand men is moving on the Petersburg road.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
12  Another corps of several thousand men is moving on Dmitrov.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
13  Thus he stumbled on Bagovut's corps in a wood when it was already broad daylight, though the corps should long before have joined Orlov-Denisov.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VI
14  These were troops of Beauharnais' corps which had started before any of the others.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
15  Three wagons had been raided and robbed by stragglers from Davout's corps.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  The corps are assembling near this town.
2  The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
3  In 1944-45 Monsignor Angelo Rotta served in the Vatican diplomatic corps in Sofia, Bulgaria.
4  That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, thanks to the internet, Hollywood and an ever-eager press corps.