: a pit dug usually hastily for individual cover from enemy fire
Examples of foxhole in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebSergeant Mullins, who now lives in Garberville, Calif., looked up from his foxhole a couple of days into the fighting and, two foxholes away, saw Pfc.—Roger Cohen Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 6 June 2024 Elsewhere, history buffs can duck into old military foxholes and meander through an open-air museum of relics left over from Chile’s near-war with Argentina in the late 1970s.—Patricia Garip, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2023 Lieutenant Puckett moved among his men from foxhole to foxhole, organizing their resistance.—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024 Puckett suffered serious wounds to his feet, backside and left arm after two mortar rounds landed in his foxhole.—CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024 There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.—Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024 This woman got down in that foxhole with me and turned this into something.—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023 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.—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
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