How to Use marching orders in a Sentence

marching orders

plural noun

• Like, who was the one that sent the marching orders to hide the document?
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 5 Apr. 2025
• But first, our guide gives us some marching orders before the games begin.
  — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
• But that doesn’t match what workers describe as their marching orders.
  — Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• No one was surprised the marching orders to get back to the office were coming.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 June 2021
• Trump needs to get his marching orders, and Putin wants to check in on his #1 asset.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
• That right there was Pirro’s marching orders.
  — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• The marching orders go out, and the infantry falls quickly into line.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• Then O’Connell gave his team its marching orders for the coming week.
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• The kids were alone at night and didn’t always follow Gach’s marching orders.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2020
• But the grand jury vetoes appear to be a rebuke of those marching orders.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
• And his new marching orders could leave Lucas in the same position this year.
  — Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
• There is a case today for Congress to issue new marching orders.
  — The Economist, 11 Aug. 2020
• This good and generous motor-mouthing poor sport has given you your marching orders.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2022
• Industry very much wanted to know they would be issued marching orders.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 May 2024
• What are your marching orders for building the company and growing sales?
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 July 2022
• When Sourisseau, his boss, put him on the story, his marching orders were simple.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
• Did David Chase give you any marching orders as far as who Dickie was or how to play him?
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
• His marching orders when he was sent down were to improve the command on his mid-to-high 90s mph fastball.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2023
• Katie Couric is here with a translation, a lot of compassion, and marching orders.
  — Glamour, 1 June 2022
• Ryan’s marching orders to us from the very beginning was that the tone is more important to him than anything that’s put on the page.
  — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
• Each federal would then have 1 year to adopt a policy that adheres to those marching orders.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
• The United States has some new marching orders in the final frontier.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• In another, deemed the office, volunteers check in to pick up money or get their marching orders.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• After all, with the new season Hugo had assembled that was soon to be unveiled, the marching orders are clear.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• What were your marching orders to Lovely in terms of song selection and their performance?
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2020
• Presidents take their marching orders from the trustees, and deans and department chairs from the president.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
• Over the next three days, Lee reached out to Meadows several times, asking for marching orders.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
• Beyond jealousy or envy, that show rose me from the dead and gave me my marching orders to raise the bar on Devo in a do-or-die effort.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2022
• So Phelps took his marching orders from France and was forced to draw a hard line with teams to conclude the long negotiations.
  — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• That night, Idrissa Gueye got his marching orders for striking Keane in the face as the two argued on the pitch.
  — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026