Sentence examples for somme with from inspiring English sources

Anybody who's ever raised a teenager knows how it can often feel like the Somme, with added ringtones.

Imagine the Somme, with howitzers replaced by Skrillex … Glastonbury festival today … Sorry, no, that's the Somme during the first world war.

There were no offensives like the Somme, with hundreds of thousands of riflemen going over the top together to face immediate death.

Tolkien himself, who fought on the Somme with the Lancashire Fusiliers, would undoubtedly have died in action, were it not for a case of trench fever that saw him invalided back to England.

Among them was Steve Richards, from Brighton, who was carrying a laminated photograph of his great-grandfather Arthur Sillence, who fought on the Somme with the 11th Battallion, the Suffolk regiment.

When you walk the Gallipoli peninsula or the Somme, with their rows upon rows of neat bleached headstones and evocative epithets, it's easy to forget war's other victims – those who supported or just endured the generation of broken men who returned.

In the north the Saint-Quentin Canal, with a 3 1/2-mile tunnel, opened in 1810, linking the North Sea and the Schelde and Lys systems with the English Channel via the Somme and with Paris and Le Havre via the Oise and Seine.

The Missing of the Somme begins with mention of a visit to the Natural History Museum with my grandfather – who never set foot in a museum in his life.

However, the battle of attrition on the Somme, coupled with a change of Britain's Prime Minister, with David Lloyd George succeeding H. H. Asquith on 7 December, destabilised the status quo sufficiently to bring about a policy reversal, making attacks on the Central Powers weak points away from the Western Front desirable.

This lot sold for £566.01 See auction's terms and conditions Lot 6 – Tour the Somme battlefields with John Lichfield The sun sets over the Somme Battlefield (Peter MacDiarmid/Getty) Over the course of the next four years we will mark the centenaries of many of the First World War's most remarkable moments.

The setting is rarely a sunny clime; nearly always, the action unfurls in frigid places like Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, where "the elements" — snow and rain and mud and "howling wind" — conspire to make the gridiron battle resemble the Battle of the Somme, but with commercials for beer and radial tires.