The tanks and personnel carriers could then follow, moving in narrow columns through safe lanes marked with colored barrels.

As a result, line was mostly used as a stationary formation, with troops moving in columns and then deploying to line at their destination.

The soldiers move in sinister columns through the streets.

We moved in separate columns, for I deemed it wise to keep the tribes apart until the sight of their oppressors should again drown tribal feelings.

The victims were moved in columns of a thousand people toward the execution ground.

Men were still moving through them in ragged columns of fours.

Screening his army with his cavalry, Frederick moved his infantry toward the Austrian left in columns.

As a result, when movement over such terrain was required over a significant distance troops would move in columns and then deploy into line at their destination.

The troops of each nation moved in separate broad columns, trampling a vast track through the knee-high grass.

The Soviet troops lacked skill in skiing, so soldiers were restricted to movement by road and were forced to move in long columns.