Use "combine forces" in a sentence

1. All the angels of God can merge and combine forces when necessary

2. If he knows Hahlynd’s coming—and I trust nobody thinks Thirsk’s stupid enough to have sent this sort of reinforcement without informing Rohsail about it—and the two of them combine forces, the only ships we’ve got that could hope to stand up to them would be Thunderer and Dreadnought … and the last we’ve heard, Dreadnought’s still on the binnacle list