Sentence examples for sappers from inspiring English sources

Instead, sappers cut a new track through the desert and mountains.

A BOMB-DISPOSAL robot creeps up a flyover in the west Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, as American army sappers fiddle with their communications devices.

The army plans to revert to historical titles for privates, who now become sappers, bombardiers, fusiliers or troopers depending on their function.

The greatest achievement was the firing in June 1917 by British sappers of more than 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) of explosive, placed in 16 chambers 100 feet (30 m) deep, which completely obliterated Messines Ridge in Belgium and inflicted 20,000 German casualties.

Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, and Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, were killed in a Real IRA ambush in March 2009 as they collected pizzas at the gates of Massereene barracks in Antrim.

They were killed as the sappers tried to defuse unexploded ordnance in Beit Lahiya.

The first actual shots of the war were fired just after 1am on 29 July when Austro-Hungarian naval vessels on the river Sava opened fire on the Serbian sappers who had blown up the bridge and on Belgrade itself.

Bird decided to use a pseudonym to avoid confusion with another Punch artist, later explaining that "fougasse" was an old technical term used by sappers for a rough-and-ready land mine that might or might not go off.

The sappers who silently undermined the foundations of the Church did more damage than the soldiers who stormed the walls.

He advises turning off attention-sappers such as automatic email notifications, and arranging desks so they don't point towards anything interesting – like people walking around outside, but admits: "Sometimes these strategies come with their own costs – turning off your iPod or mobile, for example, can trigger a yearning or even pressure that can get quite distracting in itself.

You'll see those cute deer and bunnies as walking bags of contagion, crippled internally by thousands of life-sappers.