Sentence examples for firing positions from inspiring English sources
"firing positions" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a military tactic or strategy. For example, "The commander quickly ordered his troops to take up their firing positions before the enemy approached."
Mines placed in their way prevented Russian troops from advancing toward the rebels' firing positions.
All I could see was soldiers, lying prone or crouched in firing positions.
Picture an apartment building as a huge concrete bunker with numerous concealed firing positions.
I could see the soldiers taking up new firing positions, moving in a fan towards the crowd.
Syria's SANA state news agency said that rebels had evicted residents and turned homes into firing positions.
There is no such thing as a clean occupation, especially of a population that uses children as weapons, and mosques and hospitals as arms depots and firing positions.
More tanks guard key intersections inside the walls, machine gun towers line the wide boulevards, snipers man firing positions atop palaces great and small.
The helicopters identified the firing positions of the militants, tracked them down and destroyed the vehicles they were traveling in, he said.
Almost all the patrols up the Jalrez and Nerkh Valleys have dealt with Taliban fighters, who use hidden firing positions dug in orchards and along roads.
These firing positions were not ideal, if only because a cinderblock wall will not stop many kinds of munitions in the Qaddafi soldiers' possession.
Players will get more space and time to decide their own tactics; there will be the ability to highlight enemies and suggest firing positions for computer-controlled squad-mates.
