Sentence examples for foxholes from inspiring English sources

On the side of the rough tarmac road I saw lines of sandy foxholes and trenches stretching into the distance.

Instead of foxholes or shelters, they had spread coloured mattresses and blankets on the berm, giving it the look of a giant laundry line.

They can now crouch in foxholes and shoot as snipers, but are still banned from driving tanks (although female engineers may fix them).

As a staff sergeant he fought in some of Europe's bloodiest campaigns, and pounded away at his novel in foxholes.

Photographers exhaustively recorded the squalor of trenches, the wasteland of battlefields and foxholes, the junk-piles of decomposing bodies; but Matthew Brady in the 1860s had publicised such horrors in the aftermath of Bull Run and Antietam.

The Pentagon says it was used in those ways during its successful assault on Fallujah late last year.What is widely considered unacceptable, however, though perhaps not technically illegal, is the use of white phosphorus ("willy pete", in military lingo) to winkle insurgents out of bunkers and foxholes by means of "shake and burn".

But, as Mr Bernanke tells him: "There are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises".This white-knuckle improvisation was evident across Wall Street, too.

Across the city, thousands of men have been digging foxholes and trenches.

The American armed forces acquired their first Hindu chaplain by an unlikely route: she was hired in 2006 as a Christian chaplain but decided in the course of her duties to revert to her family's Hindu roots.It used to be said that "there are no atheists in foxholes", or in a slightly different version "there are no atheists in the trenches".

They live under tarpaulins and in foxholes dug into the side of the canal.

These holes may subsequently be deepened so that a soldier can safely stand up in one of them, and the individual foxholes may be connected by shallow crawl trenches.