Sentence examples for ambush set from inspiring English sources

His final encore began as an ambush, set up in what had been a V.I.P. section on a side stage.

They got within 50 yards of the car when they came under heavy mortar, machine gun and rifle fire from an ambush set up by a force they estimated at 400.

As it is described by Peter Chelkowski in his book "Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran" (New York University Press, 1979), "on the plain of Karbala they were caught in an ambush set by the Sunnite caliph, Yazid.

As the American soldiers moved into the jungle on the morning of the battle, most of the platoons were below strength because many of the men had been on patrol the night before and needed to rest awhile before starting out once more.The depleted American forces walked straight into an ambush set by Vo Minh Triet, a North Vietnamese commander.

The police, who were killed in an ambush set by ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo, have become the most potent symbol of the barrage of state propaganda that depicts Albanians in Kosovo as terrorists and scoffs at calls for respecting human rights in the province.

At this point, the Georgian cavalry followed Subutai's army into an ambush set by Jebe.

Bonnie and Clyde managed to survive several armed ambushes set by police; their gang was not always so lucky.

About 15 armed men, shabiha, descended on us and there was an ambush all set up.

The stage for last week's ambush was set last month when a special police unit from the region of Perm, a city in the Russian Urals, was sent to Chechnya.

At least 14 people were killed and scores were wounded as government forces seeking to win back this eastern Ukrainian city from pro-Russia separatists ran into an ambush Monday set up by the rebel gunmen.

Most of the ambushes were set up at night.