Sentence examples for ambushed from inspiring English sources

Cathars ambushed him in a forest and killed him – thus giving the official church even more excuse to persecute "heretics".

Around midday, the camp learns that a convoy from an outpost five miles away has been ambushed on a road to the north.

Mitchell's thoughtful and informed approach has reassured spin doctors that their charges won't suddenly be ambushed by a man wearing garish hip-hop garb.

"Azerbaijani subversive groups were ambushed," the official said.

Living in the area that he did, intelligent but brutally ambushed by fate, race, education and history, he had three choices: "I could deal drugs, rob or rap.

Rodriguez, who is allowed to play as his suspension is appealed, was thrown at intentionally on Sunday by Boston's Ryan Dempster (who was subsequently suspended for five games); watched his lawyer be ambushed on NBC's The Today Show on Monday; and also prepared to file a grievance via the players union against the Yankees, for the way they've handled his hip issues.

Some residents recalled how Boko Haram had ambushed and beheaded two psychologists sent by the government to help the traumatised inhabitants.

That Campbell should be ambushed so easily suggests that none of his supporters, who included many of the party's most eminent names, had given much thought to what it was about their man that might appeal to the public.

A few times the shipment fell into the hands of the security forces, or the vehicle would be hit by a rocket or get ambushed.

The attack took place at about 8.45pm on Thursday evening when a group of men ambushed the couple as they walked toward a roadside tea stall, with at least two of the attackers hitting them with meat cleavers.

In April, gunmen believed to belong to the cartel ambushed a police convoy travelling along a mountain road in Jalisco killing 15 officers and wounding five.