Sentence examples for fighting hole from inspiring English sources

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The men moved from fighting hole to fighting hole as the missiles hit the ridges in front of them, the Kurds said.

As I remember it, desert warfare is full of boring moments -- if you're not fighting, you're digging a fighting hole or driving or walking, and you must cover miles a day.

It was the first winter of the war in Afghanistan, when the wind stabbed like an ice pick and fingertips froze to triggers, but a young lieutenant's blood simmered as he approached a Marine fighting hole and spotted three heads silhouetted in the moonlight.

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In 1960 one Le Chau took a picture of "fighting holes".

My platoon dug fighting holes in a perimeter around the command post.

Creeping forward by night and massing by day, rebels now watch from small bunkers, buildings and fighting holes that extend from the town toward the highway's edge.

The platoon leader, Second Lt. Justin Smith, selected a spot where trails intersected, and the platoon dug shallow fighting holes before dark.

Despite the fact that my unit operated in the middle of the desert and that Iraq's air force had been destroyed, and with it most of Saddam Hussein's intelligence apparatus, we spent our evenings jumping in and out of fighting holes for Scud alerts that turned out to be false.

The desert sun beats down on the marines of Company L dug into sandbagged burrows -- known as "fighting holes" -- about 400 yards north of Falluja, a jumble of low dune-colored buildings spiked with the minarets of the city's mosques.

Their position is in a Muslim cemetery and an adjacent garbage dump where most of the fighting holes are dug.

All pressure on America Potential point ahead for Europe 5.20pm BSTMickleson on the 17th, one hole down, fighting to save the hole from about 25ft.

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