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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of convoy.

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Examples

  • Some were set to scrubbing and cleaning, others to picking oakum, and eight of us were convoyed across the street to the Whitechapel

    THE SPIKE 2010

  • For all the talk of U-boat wolf packs, 99% of the ships convoyed from the U.S. to Britain made it safely.

    Those Desperate Hours Edward Kosner 2011

  • Sometimes goods are sold in packages: if I sold you a car, I would have sold you a service package and tires etc. — convoyed sales.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • We met in Austin at DPS headquarters, and convoyed up I-35 to Bruceville-Eddy with a pair of Texas Rangers and a dozen forensic anthropology grad students.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • We met in Austin at DPS headquarters, and convoyed up I-35 to Bruceville-Eddy with a pair of Texas Rangers and a dozen forensic anthropology grad students.

    Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2010

  • So you can see it was a jolly summer in the Ganges valley, all right, as I and my four companions discovered, when Diribijah Singh finally convoyed us out from his fort and back to Cawnpore after Havelock had retaken it.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Entire villages convoyed north, on tractors, in minibuses, crammed into taxis charging extortionate rates to ferry the poor.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • The white-clad troops formed an impenetrable mass both in front of and behind the sullen travelers as they were convoyed down the street.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • What about the time when they convoyed from Kuwait to Mosul escorting contractors for Kellogg Brown and Root [KBR], the subsidiary of

    Luis - Corporate Warrior: Family of War Series 2009

  • Troops would be convoyed across the Gulf of Siam, and bridgeheads would be secured in southern Thailand and probably northern Malaya, all under the protection of Japanese planes based in Indo-China.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

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