How to Use behind enemy lines in a Sentence

behind enemy lines

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• Matisse, whose mother was ill behind enemy lines, had tried three times to enlist.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• One was to be dropped behind enemy lines to conduct sabotage.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Sometimes, the job is a little like being sent behind enemy lines to make sure that the other army plays fair.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 24 May 2023
• It’s designed to train airmen and -women to survive and return from behind enemy lines.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2026
• But when he is forced to eject from his doomed plane, Egan finds himself with a new mission to survive behind enemy lines.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• If fire camp is the base from which general troops are sent to the front, then spike is the tactical outpost behind enemy lines.
  — Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
• They got towed into position by other planes and were then released to fly behind enemy lines with two tons of troops and equipment.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Ukraine has spent the war developing lethal drones that have terrorized troops on the battlefield and struck far behind enemy lines.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Kane was all smiles during the warmup on Tuesday night, clearly relishing once again being behind enemy lines.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• One of the most daunting aspects of flying missions over conflict zones remains the prospect of being shot down and captured behind enemy lines.
  — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Apr. 2026
• Then Maverick and Rooster, shot down behind enemy lines, find the sheltered planes.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 28 May 2022
• These grenades were designed to destroy enemy tanks and soldiers deep behind enemy lines on land where allied soldiers were never meant to tread.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• If the Russians sent in reserves from across the border, large numbers of Ukrainian troops could get cut off behind enemy lines.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Soldiers using jetpacks to buzz above battlefields and slip behind enemy lines may soon be a reality.
  — Jackie Snow, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
• The teaser trailer soon has the secret mission fail, with Joe and Cruz behind enemy lines and coming under fire.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• This has proved to be a highly effective means of interrupting logistics far behind enemy lines.
  — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• In theory, the ship would drop a drone behind enemy lines before defenses could react and then return to base autonomously.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
• Special forces operating behind enemy lines could use special railroad mines to blow up tracks and trains, stalling the invasion effort.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2022
• Larger, medium-altitude drones have been used to reach deeper behind enemy lines to target radars and installations.
  — Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
• In this film, both men are deployed to the Mediterranean, but when one gets captured behind enemy lines, the other must choose between his own life and saving his comrade.
  — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
• Artem’s commander later told her that their unit had advanced behind enemy lines, but lacked a drone to support their mission with aerial reconnaissance.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Airborne unit is designed to deploy on short notice and seize contested terrain by parachuting out of airplanes behind enemy lines.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Ukrainian troops have celebrated what appears to be a surprise attack on Vladimir Putin's troops behind enemy lines.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
• Both are designed to strike targets far behind enemy lines, but they were developed around very different operational philosophies.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
• The night before an away game in Knoxville, Russ and Danny must sneak out of the team hotel and go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
  — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
• The night before an away game in Knoxville, Russ and Danny must sneak out of the team hotel and go on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
  — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• While most of the men (as many as 150 in one afternoon) have perished, others are stuck behind enemy lines, having bailed out of their crashing planes by parachute.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• The timing of the Incheon landing placed American Marines behind enemy lines.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Those blasts are believed to be the work of resistance fighters, also known as partisans, or Ukrainian special forces working behind enemy lines.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• This makes sense for a unit operating behind enemy lines as the lack of firing signature (no blast, flash or smoke) means that the source of a Lancet cannot be traced, and they can be launched from miles away.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024