Examples of foxhole in a Sentence
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Following the decision, the Alabama House speaker took to Twitter to share a little home cooking from Yellowhammer News and retreated to a familiar foxhole — blaming activist judges.
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Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
With lidar, however, the researchers uncovered nearly 1,000 previously unknown features of the landscape, such as foxholes and bomb craters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
Their eyes were drawn to a foxhole dug by Israeli soldiers who’d been laying ambushes to intercept infiltrators crossing the hostile border with Syria, which lay half a mile away.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
Another GoPro video of close combat published on social media shows a Russian soldier creep behind two Ukrainian infantryman in a foxhole facing away from him.
—Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
There’s no evidence this explosive foxhole digger was ever issued to the U.S. Army or Marines.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2022
Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
The foxhole wasn’t deep—barely big enough to provide cover for a crouching soldier.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
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Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
With lidar, however, the researchers uncovered nearly 1,000 previously unknown features of the landscape, such as foxholes and bomb craters.
—Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
Their eyes were drawn to a foxhole dug by Israeli soldiers who’d been laying ambushes to intercept infiltrators crossing the hostile border with Syria, which lay half a mile away.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
Another GoPro video of close combat published on social media shows a Russian soldier creep behind two Ukrainian infantryman in a foxhole facing away from him.
—Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
There’s no evidence this explosive foxhole digger was ever issued to the U.S. Army or Marines.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2022
Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
The foxhole wasn’t deep—barely big enough to provide cover for a crouching soldier.
—Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
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First Known Use
1915, in the meaning defined above
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“Foxhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foxhole. Accessed 29 Sep. 2023.
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foxhole
noun
fox·hole
-ˌhōl 
: a pit dug usually in a hurry for individual cover against enemy fire
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