ambuscade

VERB
  1. wait in hiding to attack
NOUN
  1. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
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How To Use ambuscade In A Sentence

  • During an expedition to the frontier for the object of punishing a marauding party, his company was ambuscaded and made a desperate resistance, but were overpowered and put to flight.
  • He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts. Chapter 1: My Eagle
  • He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade. CHAPTER III
  • It was evident that the enemy were ambuscaded in great force.
  • The next morning they started early to the south, and toiled until eleven o'clock, to find themselves once more ambuscaded by the precipitous hills. The Wedge of Gold
  • If nothing else, the ambuscade - traditionally dated August 15, 778 - did take place.
  • If you are still reading this and have not clicked over to Blogger #2145's latest Sarah Palin ambuscade, you may suspect this blog falls within the parameters of The Most Fascinating Person I Have Known or A Teacher Who Changed My Life and you would be right on both counts. Spencer Green: A True American Idol
  • Brown was opposed to the pursuit, and told Patrick he feared they would be ambuscaded.
  • He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade. CHAPTER III
  • Marsh and forty-six men, started for the scene of the uprising, and were ambuscaded by the Indians, twenty-eight of the men being killed and Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
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