Examples of foxhole in a Sentence
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Puckett suffered serious wounds to his feet, backside and left arm after two mortar rounds landed in his foxhole.
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CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
—Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
This woman got down in that foxhole with me and turned this into something.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
Following the decision, the Alabama House speaker took to Twitter to share a little home cooking from Yellowhammer News and retreated to a familiar foxhole — blaming activist judges.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
With lidar, however, the researchers uncovered nearly 1,000 previously unknown features of the landscape, such as foxholes and bomb craters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
Their eyes were drawn to a foxhole dug by Israeli soldiers who’d been laying ambushes to intercept infiltrators crossing the hostile border with Syria, which lay half a mile away.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
Another GoPro video of close combat published on social media shows a Russian soldier creep behind two Ukrainian infantryman in a foxhole facing away from him.
—Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
—Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
This woman got down in that foxhole with me and turned this into something.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
Following the decision, the Alabama House speaker took to Twitter to share a little home cooking from Yellowhammer News and retreated to a familiar foxhole — blaming activist judges.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
With lidar, however, the researchers uncovered nearly 1,000 previously unknown features of the landscape, such as foxholes and bomb craters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
Their eyes were drawn to a foxhole dug by Israeli soldiers who’d been laying ambushes to intercept infiltrators crossing the hostile border with Syria, which lay half a mile away.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
Another GoPro video of close combat published on social media shows a Russian soldier creep behind two Ukrainian infantryman in a foxhole facing away from him.
—Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foxhole. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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foxhole
noun
fox·hole
-ˌhōl 
: a pit dug usually in a hurry for individual cover against enemy fire
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