How to Use emplacement in a Sentence

emplacement

noun

• And the views out of the Rock through the gun emplacements are spectacular.
  — James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• But new satellite images made public this week appeared to reveal weapons emplacements for the first time.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
• Perhaps that’s what Goddard’s emplacement is an attempt to fix.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
• The other exhibit is outdoors in what was once an artillery emplacement.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Better yet, the new sculpts actually look like planet-sized gun emplacements.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
• The next artillery emplacement in the city was inspired by one of the most obscure campaigns of the Civil War.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• As my 14-year-old son, Anders, scampered up a metal ladder to the gun emplacements at Ft.
  — Brian E. Clark, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• The base is built into subterranean caves, but concrete is still needed for the roofs and floors of the spacecraft hangars, and the defensive laser cannon emplacements.
  — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
• As first reported by Marie Claire, there are enough women in this life-or-death job that there has been at least one all-female shift at one of the launch emplacements.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
• His troops were dug into a lacework of tunnels and gun emplacements and most had survived the pre-invasion bombing, the Courant has reported.
  — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026
• Iger effectively resumed his duties as soon as news of his emplacement first emerged (a move that reportedly blindsided Chapek).
  — WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
• It was abandoned in 1865, when the war ended, but the cannon emplacements are still visible today, carved into the landscape.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
• Patricia Harris Patti and I walked along arched passageways and climbed to the artillery emplacement.
  — Patricia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The network will combine fighting positions, emplacements for heavy weapons such as machine guns, communications lines, storage and rest areas.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• One of the largest islands is Fiery Cross, complete with three expansive airfields, hangars for multiple fighter squadrons and several gun emplacements.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• This quick-hardening ability allowed the French Army to build gun emplacements quickly in the first world war, and could have helped fortify rebel defenses on Hoth.
  — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
• On the moon, the Orientale Ring appears to be an explosive volcanic feature potentially created by a shallow emplacement of a dike.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2010
• It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• Despite suffering heavy casualties, Rai and his men eliminated all the men at each 37-millimeter gun emplacement, one of which was hidden in a nearby jungle.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
• When the noncompliant enemy rallied with a counteroffensive, a bleeding Davis led a small team onward, destroying gun emplacements and earning more captives, the Army said.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Captured from the French Army, the guns were reportedly in hardened emplacements overlooking a section of beach designated by landing forces as Omaha.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
• The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• How will that be taken care of and how will the ships that are there, that are not moving, start to move and be moving with a degree of confidence that they will not be inhibited by what remains of the Iranian either boats or gun emplacements along that strait?
  — Major Garrett, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
• Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.
  — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
• The mosque, souk and adjoining districts were transformed into World War I-style front lines, featuring trenches lined with sandbags, fortified tunnels, sniper emplacements and near-daily shelling.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• But at the same time, military officials are talking about new technologies with the Ukrainians, including the possibility of helping with new generations of drones that could fly in swarms at Russian emplacements.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The drill target is located at a regional significant NNW lineament that controls the emplacement of the giant Chuquicamata deposit.
  — Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024
• Then a 19-year-old private, Jackson single-handedly took out a dozen Japanese machine-gun emplacements, repeatedly risking his own life and saving his platoon from almost certain destruction.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 28 July 2017
• Meanwhile, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative found that three sets of three emplacements were built on Mischief Reef in 2023, likely to accommodate road-mobile weapons platforms, including artillery or rocket systems, to defend the outpost.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025