How to Use "rearguard" with Example Sentences

1. The porters are fighting a rearguard action against change .

2. Instead it often seems lost in unseemly rearguard actions to preserve a fading status .

3. That will enlarge the gap between ins and outs , " vanguard " and " rearguard " .

4. And he will also have to fight a rearguard action to preserve some of the achievements of his first term .

5. But ministers said measures such as brazil 's tax on inflows can be little more than ad hoc defensive rearguard actions .