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Sentence Examples Security elements must check out all suspected ambush areas prior to the advance of the main element. Crab spiders do not build webs but ambush pollinating insects on flowers with their raptorial forelimbs. While many spiders build webs, others do not, but instead ambush prey as it passes by. Whether it's getting out of an ambush, or getting into position for a raid or attack, the extra speed leaves the enemy at a disadvantage. For three nights in a row, a dozen of his men lay in ambush near where the source said the men would pass. But the ambush, and the enemy flares and gunfire that followed, rattled the men of Bravo Company more than any event. So he sends a posse of ornery opossum lovers out into the bog for a little airboat ambush. It is incomprehensible that this group of yahoos can, under cover of darkness, set up an ambush for the emergency services. Those involved in the ambush said a trap had been laid, and that the area was marked with defensive earth berms and firing positions. The occupants fled the car and were shot at the roadside, perhaps by a second group of attackers involved in the ambush. He was shot during an ambush and killed because he wasn't wearing his body armor. There have been frequent attacks on livestock too, with crocodiles waiting in ambush near the river bank. He could only see one metal wall, so he had no idea of how well it was guarded or if an ambush was waiting for him. On the other hand, the ambush is used throughout operations and is based on surprise. The Russian snipers were not prepared to hunt in the ruins and to lie in ambush for days on end. Barracuda and dogtooth tuna are a common sight along these edges just cruising or lying in ambush. Ignoring him while he pouted and deftly avoiding his attempts to ambush her, Elizabeth finished packing things away. What we need to decide is whether it's okay to ambush people in the workplace. A decisive factor is whether ambush marketing activities signify a serious breach of rights. That hard-line stance against ambush marketing shouldn't deter companies from pushing the envelope. Show More Sentences For sponsors like these, the real risk is that the event will be taken over by ambush marketing. There were political overtones, security risks and controversies over ambush marketing, sponsorships, contracts and what not. He emphasised that it was ambush marketing by intrusion, particularly, which the World Cup organisers are seeking to defeat. He was scanning visitors as they arrived, no doubt on the alert for any outbreak of unofficial ambush marketing. They bought a lariat and a gun and, one morning, lay in ambush for the milkman, nearly killing him. Can't the world conspire to ambush you, putting up dead ends and roadblocks where once there were wide-open personal spaces? In lizards, actively foraging insectivores identify animal prey using lingually sampled chemical cues, but ambush foragers do not. The most dangerous situation is to be drawn deep in among buildings where the enemy can ambush the attack and roll it up. Russian partisans sabotaged railways, destroyed trucks and killed hundreds of Germans in ambush. In preparation for urban warfare, the soldiers practised responding to a vehicle ambush, clearing buildings and attacking enemy positions. Reed's platoon moved straight through the city on the double, rushing past snipers and ambush locations. It was all too easy to imagine one saw the gleam of metal as Rim troops lurked in ambush. When he learnt of a valuable Baltic convoy carrying timber and tar for shipbuilding due into port, he waited to ambush it off Scarborough. Gauls and Germans used the thick forests of northern Europe to hide from Caesar's legions and to ambush them when opportunities arose. The enemy evidently knew of the their arrival time and place, erected some kind of barricades, and were in position to ambush the convoys. Some large trucks are fitted with battering rams, the better to plow through roadblocks that attempt to halt a convoy in an ambush. Once, he even directed the helmsman to beach the boat, right into the teeth of an ambush, and pursued our attackers on foot, into the jungle. Bandits and other miscreants roamed the dirt track after sundown, waiting for a horseman to come along so they could ambush him. They bivouacked quickly, and with as little noise as possible, set up an ambush to the rear in case they had been followed. The three blips on the radar screen were moving closer and closer to the ambush. Show More Sentences Irregular forces that choose to fight in mufti and from ambush will be able to dramatically decrease the range. The mass of soldiers squirmed through the all too narrow alleyway as they escaped from the ambush. Currently, enemy guerrilla forces identify soft targets or small combat patrols as ambush targets. At the site of one ambush there was a festive air as a large group of boys banged away at the burned carcass of an abandoned U.S. vehicle. The nymphs are not as brightly colored as the adults, but are well camouflaged predators who ambush their prey. I studiously avoid poll takers waiting to ambush me at train stations and supermarkets, and I hang up on telephone surveys. It will be used to support hit-and-run, ambush, and harassing, and urban warface missions. The film begins quite promisingly, with a violent ambush on the gold shipment and a thrilling stagecoach chase. Wounded by what they consider an unpatriotic ambush, the Marines rejected the union's olive branch and secured an alternative parking lot. From what he had gathered from the Marines, however, the whole thing stank of an ambush. In the morning, they run into a band of elves who were at the ambush of the orcs. So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch. As Ralph, Piggy, and the remaining boys sit on the beach, some of the hunters surprise them and ambush them. The company suffered a large number of casualties from the intense hostile fire while fighting its way out of the ambush. They ate quickly and hurriedly set off again to get away from the site of the ambush. Troops have traditionally been encouraged to roar when closing with the enemy, particularly to increase shock when springing an ambush. An important role in destroying an enemy force that has penetrated the defense is played by the ambush party. It is not the overzealous, fault-finding traffic officers who ambush motorists at every street corner. They were also designated to protect truck convoys and counter ambush forces. As in the vignette above, the enemy established ambush positions to hit our convoys moving north into zone. Show More Sentences Others skirted the edge of the underbrush, and took up ambush positions around the forces of the government. These doctrines address a range of concerns including ambush, spies, maneuver, counter-intelligence, mutiny and force protection. Fishes like this gadid often lie motionless, either waiting in ambush for potential prey or simply conserving energy by resting on the bottom. She escaped the fatal ambush on a lonely desert stretch of the 3000 km-long Stuart Highway, which runs between Adelaide and Darwin. Before he dreams about the ambush at night, he replays what his grunt training could've made him do better. Guerrilla forces will immediately attempt to break contact, and if possible, exfiltrate the ambush site. The enemy is issued a mission to conduct a baited ambush under the supervision of a drill sergeant. Surprises and plotters lurk along the road ahead waiting to ambush him. He was killed instantly by a blast in an ambush launched on our vehicles outside of a schoolhouse. There are those who risked ambush in the taking of surrenders. Well, before he became the name of a Montreal suburb, in 1660, Dollard rounded up a posse of 16 volunteers to ambush an Iroquois attack on what became Montreal. The sheer size and length of the feast and our own gluttony had saved us from walking straight into an ambush. Hitherto the tribesmen had been armed with matchlocks, daggers, and swords and had relied especially on the sudden charge from ambush and on cold steel. In a cheeky bit of ambush marketing, a billboard for Dooney's show was erected opposite the Melbourne Art Fair at the Melbourne Exhibition Building. Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city. After the ambush, bushrangers chased the war party through the bush, burning whares at Te Ahu Ahu Pa and Waikukupa Pa, both of which had already been abandoned. With the blood from his head injury obscuring his vision, Beharry managed to continue to control his vehicle, and forcefully reversed the Warrior out of the ambush area. If ambush marketing is bad for the game, so is marketing of this nature. It springs or rushes out of ambush, opening its jaws quickly and allowing them to slam together hard enough to snap the relatively fragile tibiotarsus of the bird. The Lieutenant and 80 soldiers, much against orders, pursued the attackers and were wiped out when they were decoyed into an ambush of 1,000 waiting warriors. Show More Sentences Rights infringements range from the unauthorised sale of match tickets or counterfeit licensed products to unfair competition and ambush marketing. Police had to escort fire engines in Bradford because there was a fear of ambush and an elderly blind woman with her guide dog had rockets fired at them. Because the fish will be waiting in ambush behind the top of the sand dune watching for baitfish or whatever to be washed into their field of view. How can major events sponsors be protected against ambush marketing? I wonder if the ICC's rules of ambush marketing will apply for the game. Hector said to his men warning them of the possible dangers of an ambush. With the initial breach of the enemy defense now gained for his unit, he sprang from the vehicle and began assaulting the berm and ambush line with two Marines. However, they had no information on who carried out the actual ambush. Seventeen months later, a recently awoken Kennex is obsessed with figuring out how The Syndicate planned the ambush. In daylight, a lion could starve waiting for a perfect ambush. They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit. In one ambush in late July, 11 Hezbollah fighters were killed, according to Lebanese security sources. However, they heard of a plot to ambush them by the people of Plymstock, at a bridge over the River Tavy. Lancetfish are ambush predators which spend all their time in the mesopelagic zone. The CID then set up an ambush to catch the suspect by pretending to be an interested buyer. She would lure him to a Paris suburb where the gang waited in ambush. Versions of the story that were common at the time had Duncan being killed in an ambush at Inverness, not in a castle. Marines killed at least 12 civilians and injured 33 in Shinwar district, Nangrahar, in a response to a bomb ambush. On 19 August, French troops suffered their worst losses in Afghanistan in an ambush. Sergeant Walters was initially reported to have been killed in the ambush after killing several Fedayeen before running out of ammunition. Show More Sentences A feigned retreat by the Picts drew the Northumbrians into an ambush at Dun Nechtain near the lake of Linn Garan. De Burgh moved his army north of Louth and set up camp while his cousin, William Liath de Burgh attempted to ambush Edward's forces. The British devised a plan to ambush German destroyers on their daily patrols. The hope was that Scheer would thus be able to ambush a section of the British fleet and destroy it. Successful hunts usually occur after a short rush and ambush but they may chase down prey in the open and will try to separate mother and young. Meanwhile, Telemachus sails home from Sparta, evading an ambush set by the Suitors. Crocodiles are ambush predators, waiting for fish or land animals to come close, then rushing out to attack. Arminius, who accompanied him, directed him along a route that would facilitate an ambush. The Cimbri initially set about complying peacefully with Rome's demands, but soon discovered that Carbo had laid an ambush against them. Macrian was killed on campaign against the Franks, in an ambush laid by the Frankish king Mallobaudes. The Huns preferred to fight at long range, utilizing ambush, encirclement, and the feigned retreat. These tactics consisted of small groups who attempted to catch their opponents by surprise, through an ambush. Unfortunately, the party was soon attacked by bandits, who used the cover of a sandstorm to ambush them. The ambush had yielded only two captives, and raised the alarm on the mainland shore. A successful ambush then annihilated a Han force which had been sent to arrest him. However, the Aztecs were successful in setting an ambush with thirty of their pirogues in an area in which they had placed impaling stakes. There is no evidence that any of the main Inca force attempted to engage the Spaniards in Cajamarca after the success of the initial ambush. Karacha, however, was not to be trusted, as Kolzo and his men walked into an ambush and were all killed. Weevers, which are usually no longer than six inches, bury themselves in the sea bed and ambush their prey with spines on their back. Meanwhile, the hungry antbirds wait low on the periphery to ambush and kill any insects trying to escape the mandibles of the vicious invaders. Show More Sentences Brigadier Ian Lisles, who also served for several tours in Northern Ireland, was posted to South Armagh a few months after the ambush. The robot defenders ambush the Joe team and a firefight ensues. Re-enlisting on September 12, 2001, Davis fought, lost his best friend during an ambush, and returned home physically and emotionally shredded. Pay attention to obvious gathering points like gaps in understructure where snook can sit and ambush tide-borne prey. This particular ghastly grimace belongs to a California Swellshark which lies in rocky crevices, waiting to ambush fish and crabs. Walk the rimrocks with a shotgun, cast a fly for rainbows, ambush a turkey, break a few clays or prowl the backcountry roads with binoculars. There are long chapters on topics such as using dead drops for communications, how to ambush a motorcade, and urban tactical procedures. Here you'll find tarpon waiting to ambush prey that's moving in and out of the Peace River. Moose may be preferred where found in large numbers because of their solitary habits and tendency to dwell in wooded areas, both of which makes them easier to ambush. When his Marine handler Kyle is killed in an Afghan ambush, the Belgian Malinois Max is shipped back to the States to be put down due to his aggressive nature. Brown bears may also ambush young animals by finding them via scent. Their attempted ambush ended in their defeat and the army pressed on, destroying de Verdon's fortress of Castle Roche, and on 29 June attacked Dundalk. When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France. At the first feast, Thorkel learns that Einar plans to ambush him. Although they were only armed with wooden sticks, Li and his band managed to ambush a group of government soldiers sent to arrest them, and obtained their first real weapons. Flabby benthopelagic fishes are like bathopelagic fishes, they have a reduced body mass, and low metabolic rates, expending minimal energy as they lie and wait to ambush prey. An army spokeswoman said soldiers lying in ambush under cover of darkness opened fire on three men they believed were preparing to throw petrol bombs. Atahualpa's intention appears to have been to impress the small Spanish force with this display of splendor and he had no anticipation of an ambush. The sargassum fish is a voracious ambush predator that is also a cannibal. Marius then hid 3,000 troops in ambush, so when the main Germanic contingent finally attacked, the hidden Roman troops could fall on them from behind. Show More Sentences Where it enters the lake, a gunner can lean against the bleached skeletons of dead trees to ambush goldeneyes, redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads and scaup. An auxiliary lieutenant to the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus, Arminius used his knowledge of Roman tactics to ambush and destroy the legions. The Picts under leadership of Bridei, feigned retreat and drew Ecgfrith's Northumbrian force into an ambush on Saturday 20 May 685 at a lake in mountains near Duin Nechtain. When his Marine handler, Kyle, is killed in an Afghan ambush, the Belgian Malinois Max is shipped back to the States to be put down due to his aggressive nature. Examples from Classical Literature They set their ambush with the age-old skill the Redax had grafted into their memories. Alvar Faez and his company were already gone forth, and had laid their ambush. Firing from ambush and moving from place to place, he would seem more than one man. Besides, they can rake us with bullets from ambush, while we're climbing up the ridge. We're only two, but we've got the advantage of the ambush, and that's a big one. A sudden discharge of shot from the savages in ambush, dispelled that hope. One has the sense at times of spying from ambush upon a promise of emprise and some great gain. He was circling on the trail of the stallion, with cunning intent of ambush. They had posted a number of their soldiers in a well-hidden ambush near the sugarloaf. Did any one suspect us when we sang ballads in the ambush at jowly, and found out what Moro Trimmul wanted to do? They hit on this plan because they feared an ambush on any of the labyrinthian trails leading off in other unexplored directions. Me she had not seen, nor did she till I darted out of my ambush, and leapt after Rupert into the moat. Even Alice had now stopped thinking of Mr. Richard Ravenal, and thought only of the lurker in ambush. The two assassins crouched in their ambush, a tigerish glare in their eyes. The children lie in ambush and fall upon one another in the mimicry of hunting. The dirty fist in the young surgeon's pocket was obliged to undoable itself, and come out of its ambush disarmed. Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, waiting to see what he would do. It is hard to say whether they be craftier in laying ambush, or wittier in avoiding the same. From my place of ambush I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows. But in many cases, such locations have no bordering trees or even brushy spots in which a hunter can set up an ambush. Show More Sentences Now an embusqu is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job. The green men were expecting an exodus of a body of red troops from the nearest city gate, and they were lying there in ambush to leap upon them. On walking shoots plan your ambush route well, dispense with a gamebag and hang birds in shady places. The ambush was carried out in Neid al-Barid area in Manbah district coinciding with many. No mountains are here, but this is a great country for ambush. His heart burned for the foray, the ambush, the skirmish, the scamper, and all the haps and hazards of roving and predatory warfare. That they lurked there either in concealment or in ambush was very plain. Darkness, the ambush and the caution of sharpshooters were there. The calamities that lie in ambush for us are ever present to our thoughts. He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the defile, to the shores of Horican. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate? They got my poor Mohammed to send for me and then laid that ambush. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests. Cameras follow a rattle snake as it prepares to ambush its prey, while an egg-eating snake gets ready for dinner. Jugurtha fell into an ambush, and was conveyed a prisoner to Rome. From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows. The flatheads are swift, omnivorous ambush predators, whereas the slower-moving blues tend to forage on shellfish or, where available, heavy populations of shad. Nor will occasion want, nor shall we need With dangerous expedition to invade Heav'n, whose high walls fear no assault or Siege, Or ambush from the Deep. If I hesitated, she was taken with that wonderful disorder which was always lying in ambush in her system, ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals. Staff officer Abdullah Dhaifallah Mohammed was killed by gunmen in an ambush on Madween-Aldhahaki highway, it said in a statement on its website, Xinhua reported. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ambush? Words that rhyme with ambush What is the past tense of ambush? What is the plural of ambush? What is the adjective for ambush? What is the noun for ambush? Translations for ambush Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ambuscaded ambuscade ambulette ambulatory ambulation ambulating ambushed ambusher ambushes ambushing ambushment AMC 6-letter Words Starting With a am amb ambu ambus