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legion

A legion is large number The film won him a legion of followers. A legion is a part of the Roman army with 3000 to 6000 soldiers Caesar and his legions defeated the Gauls.

legion

(= host) archaic terms for army association of ex-servicemen the American Legion a large military unit the French Foreign Legion (= numerous) amounting to a large indefinite number numerous times the family was numerous Palomar's fans are legion (= horde) a vast multitude

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Simple sentences

My name is Legion; for we are many.
He enlisted in the Foreign Legion.

Movie subtitles

The first is Pierre Leclerc, sniper, former member of the Foreign Legion, mercenary at present.
I renounce God and his heavenly legion, and so shall be mine the power and glory of the world.
The army will help. So will the American Legion.
First Legion is acting very badly.
First Legion is second by a head.
Skee Ball going to the front, First Legion is second Flying Demon is third, Sun Helmet is fourth and Green Goddess is fifth.
First Legion is third by a length and one half and Flying Demon is fourth.
You're wealthy now, world-famous a member of the Legion of Honor.
Commandant Dreyfus, in behalf of the president the people of the republic, and by virtue of the powers vested in me I knight you a member of the Legion of Honor.
Another two years, and we could've had him in Cobb's Legion.
Were you in Cobb's Legion?
You are now a member of the Legion of Courage.
For several years I felt a Legion of Honour would be in order.
You're from a gentler background, and this is a hard legion.
Squadron leader Hubert, on behalf of His Majesty Louis-Philippe, I appoint you Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Squadron leader Toussaint, on behalf of His Majesty, I appoint you Knight of the Legion of Honor.
He brought Adbelkader to Longchamp races, the opera, awarded him the Legion of Honor.
An officer in the legion.
They will tell you that Private so-and-so is a Russian Prince or an ex-General who joined the legion to forget his past.
The private in the Legion is a no bargain with 75 centimes per day.
I understand that men are never asked why they enter the Foreign Legion.
When I crashed the legion I ditched the past.
There's a Foreign Legion of women, too.
So will the American Legion.
Why the newspapers and a legion of Lady Hathaways..
A legion to help me!
A legion for me!
If there is no longer any justice in the legion, where is there any?
And to you men, all I can say is that I hope the loser will have the decency to join the Foreign Legion.
The Cross of the Legion of Honor.
I was like him. Then I came down to earth. In the Foreign Legion.
They remind me of my Negroes in the Legion. The tom-toms.
And the Arab Legion brought up heavy artillery.
Talk English! You are being rude to our foreign legion.
The portrait at the Palace of the Legion of.
I'd been to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the art gallery.

News and current affairs

The potential sources of such a shock are legion.
He also tried to join the French army and the Foreign Legion.
Such cases are legion.
The cases are becoming legion.
The failures in the oil-rich Middle East are legion.
The problems are legion.
To blame everything on the heavy-handedness of the Americans is too simplistic and shallow, even if their mistakes have, indeed, been legion.
The Bush administration's flip-flops and missteps are legion.
The reasons for lower labor mobility in the eurozone than in America are legion.
MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - As the latest G-20 meeting of finance ministers starts in Cairns, Australia, the Legion of Gloom is at it again.
Perhaps the deepest explanation for the Legion of Gloom's strength is where they live.
He enjoyed watching jihadist videos of beheadings. He also tried to join the French army and the Foreign Legion.
The problems underlying Japan's decline are legion.
Not, however, for the 21,000 men and women of the Western Legion.
A system based on sharia (Islamic law) has been imposed, human-rights abuses are legion, and cross-border movement of weapons and militants has undermined the security of Libya's neighbors.
But they launched devastating night raids while suffering few casualties, even when going up against Jordan's Arab Legion, by far the best Arab military force.
A legion of Islamist thugs is terrorizing Syria and Iraq.

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