Ambush Sentence Examples

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  • He sensed the ambush long before it came.

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  • Sweating and impatient after the slim escape from the ambush, Brady restrained his urge to thump the fed slowly checking Brady's micro.

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  • Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, waiting to see what he would do.

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  • It is exceedingly quick in its movements, but seizes its prey by waiting in ambush or stealthily approaching to within springing distance, when it suddenly rushes upon it and tears it to ground with its The Leopard (Felis pardus).

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  • During the expedition Captain Gamble was led into an ambush, and in this engagement lost 15 killed and 47 wounded.

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  • We must retreat or risk falling into an ambush.

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  • He preferred land wars to the space wars and had been returning to the main craft when the ambush occurred.

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  • Bryant's (or Bryan's) Station, near Lexington, was besieged in August 1782 by about 600 Indians under the notorious Simon Girty, who after raising the siege drew the defenders, numbering fewer than 200, into an ambush and in the battle of Blue Licks which ensued the Kentuckians lost about 67 killed .and 7 prisoners.

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  • Little did we know that we were walking into a carefully prepared ambush.

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  • He was next ordered out against the Solymi, a hostile tribe, and afterwards against the Amazons, from both of which expeditions he not only returned victorious, but also on his way back slew an ambush of chosen warriors whom Iobates had placed to intercept him.

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  • Wolves do not catch their prey by lying in ambush, or stealing up close and making a sudden spring, but by fairly running it down in open chase, which their speed and remarkable endurance enable them to do.

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  • It was, however, discovered shortly before the time fixed for its execution in March 1560, and an ambush having been prepared, most of the conspirators were either killed or taken prisoners.

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  • The island is incidentally described with no small variety of detail, picturesque and topographical; the Homeric localities for which counterparts have been sought are Mount Neritos, Mount Neion, the harbour of Phorcys, the town and palace of Odysseus, the fountain of Arethusa, the cave of the Naiads, the stalls of the swineherd Eumaeus, the orchard of Laertes, the Korax or Raven Cliff and the island Asteris, where the suitors lay in ambush for Telemachus.

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  • His tenure of office was very short, for on the 4th of May 1664 he allowed himself to be entrapped into an ambush by the Moors, who carried on incessant irregular warfare against the English garrison, and was killed, together with nineteen officers and nearly five hundred men of his garrison.

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  • You are to set an ambush behind the city.

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  • The only thing she could've imagined happening was an ambush.

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  • During the ambush Brom sacrifices himself to save Eragon.

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  • Czerno himself had been there for the well-timed ambush.

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  • Maxine waits in her skimpy nightie to ambush Tony when he gets home, but his news acts as a bit of a damper.

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  • Like funnel web spiders, they live in burrows, often with a trapdoor entrance, from which they ambush prey.

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  • While visiting the grave of his daughter on the anniversary of her death, U.S. agents ambush Fischer and take him in for questioning.

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  • In the original series, the Cylons used a Trojan Horse strategy to ambush the Colonial military.

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  • Their favourite prey is sheep, but tribe, they are also said to run down antelopes and hares, or rather catch them by lying in ambush.

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  • The reason I.m lying here in pain has to do with my accidental ambush of Darkyn.s demons, the demon replied.

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  • He stood in the confined main deck of the transport craft after his own craft had been disabled in an ambush.

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  • Major Scroll's team was hit with an ambush an hour ago.

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  • On his return, the king devised yet one more trap for him, laying an ambush, with picked men of Lycia.

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  • Her loved ones had clung to the hope that the military supply clerk had survived the ambush.

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  • They lay in wait for Bond and company with a deadly ambush.

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  • By the light of his lamp he saw the ambush and " with dreadful imprecations " called to his companions to bring pistols.

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  • He shoots the policewoman who is escorting Tracey but he and his accomplice drive into a police ambush and are recaptured (154 ).

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  • Crash the undergrowth, execute an ambush and shoot the stag - what could be more fun!

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  • 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.

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  • Some are even sneakier, and jump out in sudden ambush when you do n't expect it.

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  • Their personalities are developing nicely, and they can be comical to watch as they ambush each other.The kittens can have a little canned food at this point.

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  • If you survive the Ambush Series, for example, you earn 20 points.

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  • One (Dash Mode) is meant for speed, but exposes you to enemy ambush.

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  • You'll have things come at you out of nowhere, experiencing feelings of ambush or back stabbing.

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  • British soil was not attacked in this terrorist ambush but our way of life has been irrevocably affected.

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  • The remark was glad that sour faced brute Conrad did not wait in ambush for conrad behind the door swung open.

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  • Crash the undergrowth, execute an ambush and shoot the stag - what could be more fun !

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  • In instincts and in character, also, the typical " mountaineers " are to a marked degree primitive; they are, for the most part, very ignorant; they are primitively hospitable and are warm-hearted to friends and strangers, but are implacable in their enmities and are prone to vendettas and family feuds, which often result in the killing in open fight or from ambush of members of one faction by members of another; and their relative seclusion and isolation has brought them, especially in some districts, to a disregard for law, or to a belief that they must execute justice with their own hands.

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  • Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass.

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