foxholes

Definition of foxholesnext
plural of foxhole

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • The Woodward training facility at Copper Mountain, Colorado, allows skiers and snowboarders to practice their spin and flip tricks into foam pits and onto airbags before taking them to snow.
    Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The 6001 America Center building features an outdoor seating area, fire pits, collaboration spaces, and courts for basketball, pickleball, and other sports.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Ruby and sapphire mining began in the area in 1870, once rubies were discovered in the corundum mines.
    Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • With burly melancholy, Wong plays Ah Tseng, a Chinese migrant worker employed — with his young nephews — in the Rock Springs coal mines, though introduced on an idle day off in their makeshift camp.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • National organizations like the American Red Cross deployed more than 1,600 disaster workers and opened warming shelters in two dozen states.
    Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Montgomery County During a Code Blue, the county has additional resources for people experiencing homelessness, including access to temporary warming shelters, food and clothing.
    Bill Kelly, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • American companies arrived to drill the wells and build the fields.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In the season finale, Tommy springs into action and acquires the leases to several of his son Cooper’s (Jacob Lofland) wells that struck oil.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Foxholes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foxholes. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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