Sentence examples for take cover when from inspiring English sources

Residents of Beersheba generally have about 45 seconds to take cover when a rocket alert is sounded.

Iraqi troops also have been forced to scan the skies for tiny aircraft and to take cover when they appear.

The Lebanese Army is deployed next to Mr. Hamadi's home, but he said they did little but take cover when Syrian forces fired across the border.

Tom Hurndall, 21, was shot as he tried to help children take cover when an Israeli position opened fire on a street in Rafah.

Television broadcasts showed Palestinians with rifles diving to the floor inside a hospital to take cover when shots were fired outside.

Right in the middle of Independencia, a neighborhood so violent that children know how to take cover when shooting starts, is a sunlit community center, opened a few months ago.

A video distributed by activists in Homs showed Arab League monitors in a battle-scarred area of the city on Wednesday, taking cover when heavy fire rang out.

Edouard Perrin, a former writer for the newspaper who was in the office across the hall at the time of the attack, said he took cover when the shooting started and was among the first to enter after the killers fled.

It explains that Scott's expedition hoofed it during good weather but took cover when things got too icy, while Amundsen traveled the same distance, every day, no matter the weather, and thus won the race.

Mr. Browne said officers were trained to take cover, if possible, when facing a gunman, but there was no opportunity to do so here.

Visitors to the zoo described fearing for their safety as they were ordered to take cover in buildings when the 184kg (29-stone) male ape got out of its den.