Sentence examples for into ambush from inspiring English sources

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He was named as a "Salford's Mr Big" by a local councillor in 1992 after a riot in the Greater Manchester town during which police officers were lured into ambush and attack by two men in balaclavas.

The Taos deer dancers wear whole deerskins with the head attached, just like old-time deer hunters, who, historians report, dressed as living decoys, in order to lure deer into ambush.

He was also accused of disobeying orders that led his paratroopers into ambush by Egyptian forces in the Sinai during the Suez crisis in 1956, in which 30 of his soldiers died.

The report said that abducted women and girls held by Boko Haram ranged in age from infancy to 65. "They and many others they saw in the camps were subjected to physical and psychological abuse; forced labour; forced participation in military operations, including carrying ammunition or luring men into ambush; forced marriage to the captors; and sexual abuse, including rape," the report says.

Expedition after expedition had been lured into ambush and defeated with heavy loss, and no effective blow had been struck in return.

O'Donnell ordered the lead platoon into ambush positions astride the track, while he moved forward to conduct a reconnaissance.

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He betrayed gun-running units in neighbouring countries and led guerrilla columns into ambushes.

Six-year-olds have approached American patrols with whispers of insurgent hideouts, then lured them into ambushes.

Time after time, they have rushed frantically along the main roads, only to run into ambushes laid by the colonel's snipers dug into the roadside.

A U.S. security report earlier this year about Iraq declared: "Recently, hostile forces have attempted to lure coalition forces into ambushes by feigning injuries...

Convoy commanders had been warned that insurgents might plant fake explosives to draw demolition teams into ambushes or set a series of bombs to detonate in sequence.

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