Sentence examples for caught in the wire from inspiring English sources

The other one had got his leg caught in the wire and couldn't move.

Subsequent research soon told me that about as many horses had died in the first world war as had men, and they had died the same way too: blown to pieces, machine-gunned, caught in the wire, drowned in the mud.

We're not sure what, if anything, Mayor David Spaulding of North Brunswick might have done to deserve punishment, but in September he ended up in surgery after his finger got caught in the wire webbing of the dunk tank at a community festival, where he was the volunteer sitting duck.

Plastic bags caught in the razor wire flapped in the wind.

Her charges spend their days behind chain-linked fences where a discarded Minnie Mouse in a torn pink dress, caught in the razor wire, is the only indication that this is the children's area.

The man he had heard from no-man's land, caught in the barbed wire and with his leg severed, screaming to be rescued, until Mr Ponticelli ran out to him with wire-cutters and dragged him back to the lines.

A landmine has got caught in the telephone wires and the police are getting everyone out, and no-one must make a sound in case it detonates the land mine.' She thought it was hilarious, nowadays people would want six months counselling if they had a land mine outside the house.

One of the most riveting photographs shows a dead man hanging upside down (Slide 14), his legs caught in the high barbed wire fence that India has constructed to demarcate the border.

As a result he is wearing a large surgical boot, so vast that Sky technicians are terrified it will get caught in all the wires on the floor of Sky's conference studios and bring the rolling news channel's coverage to an immediate halt.

Try to avoid using a metal wheel because their tails can get caught in between the wires and cause it to break off.

Upon reaching the Bellevue Spur, the assaulting infantry, caught in the open upon the barbed wire in front of the German positions, suffered heavily at the hands of the German artillery that was able to fire without answer from the British batteries that had run out of ammunition.