AMBUSH in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for AMBUSH, such as:
1. The spirit of the ambush entered into their politics.
2. The detachment of the main force was ambushed by the enemy.
3. He was ambushed by angry protesters during a walkabout in Bolton.
4. Everybody thought our train would be ambushed, but we got out safely.
5. Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, waiting to see what he would do.
2. The detachment of the main force was ambushed by the enemy.
3. He was ambushed by angry protesters during a walkabout in Bolton.
4. Everybody thought our train would be ambushed, but we got out safely.
5. Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, waiting to see what he would do.
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Meanings and Examples of AMBUSH
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ambush
v. wait in hiding to attack
v. hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of an ambush, had arrived whole.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
2 The spirit of the ambush entered into their politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3 Jean Valjean went into ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed this illuminated space.
4 He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the bench by the Gladiator.
5 If the system of ambush and traps had not already existed, they would have been invented there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
6 Thenardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was kept in sight.
7 An order of nolle prosequi, founded on his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, had set him at liberty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
8 Madame Thenardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the Gorbeau house had come to nothing.
9 Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the smiling ambush.
10 Besides, courage was out of the question here; d'Artagnan had fallen into an ambush.
11 'Good-evening,' she whispered, not coming out of her ambush.
12 I was not long in coming to myself; everything came back to my mind at once, without an effort, as though it had been in ambush to pounce upon me again.
13 Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, waiting to see what he would do.
14 Natasha, not stirring and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes.
15 It was Timokhin's company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly.
Example Sentence:
1 A whole regiment of the enemy troop got caught in our ambush was eliminated completely.
2 The government was defeated in its attempt to pass the law by an opposition ambush.
3 They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
4 He was ambushed by angry protesters during a walkabout in Bolton.
5 Everybody thought our train would be ambushed, but we got out safely.
6 The detachment of the main force was ambushed by the enemy.