How To Use Bushed In A Sentence

bushed after all that exercise
Five soldiers died after their bus was ambushed on a country road.
They ambushed them with a volley of missiles, taking all five out at the same time.
That same year another daimyo, also with shogunal consent, led an expedition to Taiwan to explore the possibilities of setting up a trading center there, although nothing came of the attempt. 43 In 1616, a Japanese merchant-adventurer named Murayama Toan (村山東庵) sent thirteen junks to conquer Taiwan. 44 They were ambushed in a creek by headhunters and decided to give up on Taiwan and instead pillage the Chinese coast. How Taiwan Became Chinese
They insist they were, quote, "ambushed" by the FBI. CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008

Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
I was feeling a little bushed (after the second set) but I got off to a good start in the third and kept going.
A British infantry patrol has been ambushed by a group of insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
We finally got her to sleep about 7.00 am so we were all fairly bushed.
By the time the scattered troops were mustered, the enemy was already returning home and had to be ambushed in passing while laden with plunder.
Two shopkeepers who saw the attack said the two soldiers killed had their throats slit after being ambushed in traffic.
Inside South Camden Community School on Thursday night, when student Iain Wilson ambushed him as effectively as Chirac and Schröder had done hours earlier, the prime minister struggled to convince.
ONE of two men who went on the run after a prison van was ambushed by an armed gang was behind bars last night. The Sun
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
I was ambushed & beaten by the police, my phone confiscated , my car ripped apar& supplies taken #jan25less than a minute ago via webSandmonkey Egypt news day 10: Army steps in; journalists arrested and more live updates
His unit of 19 elite soldiers was ambushed and came under heavy enemy fire. Times, Sunday Times
Three masked men ambushed the embassy official as he carried the cash in two suitcases to a waiting chauffeur-driven limo. The Sun
The operation began after three officers were injured when dozens of gang members ambushed 12 police cars on the drugs raid. Times, Sunday Times
A masked robber, who was wielding a baseball bat, ambushed the first employee as he went outside to the bins.
While waging a gutsy campaign against liver disease, he was ambushed by stomach cancer and succumbed within a few months.
He was recounting how he had ambushed a column of armoured vehicles, killing dozens of soldiers. Times, Sunday Times
When the governor of Abyan and his brother, members of the same tribe as Mr. Baham, rushed to Mudiyah to investigate, gunmen ambushed their multicar convoy en route, killing the governor's brother. Tribal Ties Impede Yemen's War on al Qaeda
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
Bob, and not to have done it after all -- only to die "bushed"! Queensland Cousins
The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it. Anne's House of Dreams
Everybody thought our train would be ambushed, but in the event we got out safely.
The Algerian team bus was ambushed before the game. The Sun
Law enforcement officials have denied knowing of any threats against the police chief before he was ambushed on Feb. 27.
The cherry tree bushed out so much that it produced very little fruit, but the foliage itself had a pleasing abundance to it.
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
Shapiro stuck to the company's position, arguing Altria was "ambushed" by the Oregon court system. Supreme Court Ponders How to Finally Settle Philip Morris Case
We were "bushed" -- had no idea which way to turn. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
A chase ensued; eventually the terrorists abandoned their car and ambushed a bus, taking 9 prisoners.
A few days later Churchill was himself taken prisoner when the armoured train that he was travelling on was ambushed at Chieveley.
They heard how he was ambushed as he drove from Keighley Leisure Centre by two car loads of heavily-armed and masked thugs.
And yes, I'm lost, I'm fairly bushed.
He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
That year, it ambushed an elite antiguerrilla battalion, capturing or killing most of its 154 men. Rebels Flail in Colombia
Two Burnley youths who ambushed two men in a motorway under-pass have been sentenced to two years detention.
It should have been an exercise in ritual humiliation - especially when he was ambushed on local radio by the brother of the murdered hostage.
By "ambushed" she seems to mean that people think she's a bit silly and they show it in the traditional manner. Mad Nadine Dorries: Is She Laying It On a Bit Thick?
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
Emma's face is red with anger, her eyes flash in fury and her hair seems to have bushed out with rage.
A soldier was killed and two others injured Saturday when their convoy was ambushed by armed militants in Mizrana, in the Kabylia region about 110 kilometres (69 miles) east of the capital, the sources said. ANC Daily News Briefing
I witneesed the local student was bushed by the taliban. as a pashton boy I am shameful that most of the taliban belong to this ethnic. these criminal (taliban) invited Osama Binladan to cam to Afghanistan promote terorist activity here kill innocent human, destory our country More Nato forces will be killed unless NATO quickly get out of Afghanistan. Examiner California Headlines
A British infantry patrol has been ambushed by a group of insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
The Marines just happened to come upon them an hour after the soldiers were ambushed.
It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul.
She bushed a stray lock of long, coal-black hair behind one ear and extended her right hand.
Then hastened all the race of Phrygia to the gates, to make the goddess a present of an Argive band ambushed in the polished mountain-pine, Dardania's ruin, a welcome gift to be to her, the virgin queen of deathless steeds; and with nooses of cord they dragged it, as it had been a ship's dark hull, to the stone-built fane of the goddess The Trojan Women
One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman. Times, Sunday Times
A specialist team ambushed the men, who were in a red estate car, as they prepared to head into Glasgow from Kirkintilloch.
American positions and patrols in Mosul are being regularly ambushed or mortared.
The commander ambushed his troops in the woods for the morning attack.
But the only result of their labours was that they nearly got "bushed" themselves, and at last the fall of night made the absurdity of further search clear to them. Adventures in Many Lands
There was a time when I would have projected onto Rose motives of institutional fear that made him pretend like he was auditioning for Fox News, but I'm wondering if he was just plain too "bushed" to perform -- even when handed the hottest interviewee of the day. Archive 2005-05-15
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
Five soldiers died after their bus was ambushed on a country road.
Bushmanship was the talent, akin to that of Aborigines, for finding one's way through the bush, relying only on natural signs; to be bushed was to lose one's way, perhaps figuratively as well as geographically.
the plant quickly bushed out
He looks genuinely bushed, and that's a great shame, because he's played some fantastic tennis here.
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
It was as he walked across the car park at the front of the sports centre that he was ambushed and assaulted so viciously that he lost consciousness.
In March 1995 three American consulate officials were ambushed and their van sprayed with gunfire on a busy street in Karachi. NIMITZ CLASS
LEMON: And while all eyes were on Edouard, a storm with no name ambushed Indiana overnight. CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2008
It's certainly ironic that the ultimate union-buster has been ambushed by another powerful exercise in union busting, albeit one more subtly executed without dogs and balaclavas.
Sam Newman asked Malthouse directly why Collingwood had ambushed Williams at the tribunal.
By the time it's my turn to step into the plane's conference room, Mr. Gates, tieless and in blue jeans, looks bushed. Libya Isn't 'About Regime Change'
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
ALGIERS - Moslem fundamentalists ambushed and killed an Algerian state television journalist, the seventh local journalist to be slain in five months, Algiers radio reported. ANC Daily News Briefing
At the pass of Rencesvals, the twenty thousand Christians of the rearguard are ambushed by a vastly superior force, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Eight hours on, we touch down smoothly at Gatwick, having been to France and back and, although it's only 2pm, I'm bushed.
Her eyes were of the Oriental type, -- full, heavy-lidded, ambushed in thick, black lashes, -- themselves dark and unfathomable as the long night of mystery which hangs over the history of her wild and wandering race, those unsubduable, unseducible children of Nature, -- the voluntary Pariahs of the world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
Ok - the first day of training is finished and I am bushed - as usual.
We've been over to see Dad today before doing a bit of shopping, so now we're chilling, totally bushed and ready for a drink!
The Algerian team bus was ambushed before the game. The Sun
The operation began after three officers were injured when dozens of gang members ambushed 12 police cars on the drugs raid. Times, Sunday Times
The commander ambushed his troops in the woods for the morning attack.
Considering all this, I must say, I didn't feel mentally bushed.
Hewson, who had known nothing of the polling until confronted by O'Brien, was ambushed with it on Lateline.
And the sinking scattered feeling of the "bushed" clutched at her again. Saint's Progress
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
Two generations back they still stood dark and empty; people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the key-hole and made off; for within, it was supposed, the plague lay ambushed like a basilisk, ready to flow forth and spread blain and pustule through the city. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
Obama writes that his child-self felt "ambushed" by the sudden revelation that black people endured such things "in response to advertisements that promised happiness as a white person". The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
Calida had barely made it to the bottom of the stairs when Esmerelda ambushed her.
Given my usual sedentary existence, I'm rather bushed, so this is another terse entry.
The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods.
A man was ambushed and mugged by three men lying in wait as he walked home from a football match.
Much of the film takes place within the confines of a cabin during the winter, and the faces on the characters by the time spring rolls around add a new dimension to the idea of being ‘bushed’.
I just heard that big toad Bennett saying on CNN that Clinton had "ambushed" him by going down to Flordia to thank her supporters for her overwhelming win. Obama Returns Rezko-Linked Money
ONE of two men who went on the run after a prison van was ambushed by an armed gang was behind bars last night. The Sun
The Algerian team bus was ambushed before the game. The Sun
With wake-up for tomorrow's bullet train to Hiroshima set for 5: 30, everyone was bushed.
We were twelve miles before the main body, and we came to a house under a high bushed hill, with a nullah, which they call a donga, behind it, and an old sangar of piled stones, which they call a kraal, before it. Traffics and Discoveries
Five soldiers died after their bus was ambushed on a country road.
One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman. Times, Sunday Times
It would help to know your names in case we get ambushed, and I need to call you in a hurry.
Despite himself, he was ambushed into wondering whether its plastic beams and presumptuous furnishings had played host to more than the usual irreproachable clientele on the previous evening.
I have a reasonable good understanding of maps and have never been truly lost, although I have been "bushed" a few times.
How can someone like that ever be "ambushed" with philosophical arguments? Dawkins Goes Limp on Free Will
One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman. Times, Sunday Times
But they soon realised that they were "bushed" -- a term familiar enough to those who are acquainted with the story of Australian inland exploration. Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
The ambushed was a Mexican Army patrol in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, just across the border from El Paso Texas. American Chronicle
Hopefully, I'll have some good stories when I return, since the people I'm going to visit have been mortared and ambushed several times, luckily without injury.
Their police car was cruising along one of the main roads in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone on Wednesday evening when it was ambushed.
The old man followed her into the dark hall, where he was ambushed by several dozen rebels.
Read in studio Two police officers have been injured after a gang of twenty youths ambushed their patrol car.
Officials of the U.N. World Food Program say two of their vehicles were ambushed by unknown gunmen Friday in the remote Somali region of Eastern Ethiopia, also known as the Ogaden. Ethiopia, UN Mount Joint Search Operation for Kidnapped Aid Workers
American-born James Amburn, 56, claims he was ambushed outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, bound with masking tape and bundled into a car boot after being bashed over the head with the Zimmer frame of one of his elderly kidnappers. The Revenge of the Superannuated Sopranos « Anglican Samizdat
Their unit was ambushed with bombs, grenades and petrol bombs, but the soldiers managed to escape their vehicle before it burned out.
Although I consider myself informed about women's health, I was ambushed by this news.
The amiable and insolvent owner of the 300-acre estate died after being ambushed near his demesne.
Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict. Times, Sunday Times
In a way, the halftime show's climactic (in all senses) "wardrobe malfunction" distracted from this more fundamental question: even if Janet's boob hadn't been bared, was it responsible of CBS to broadcast these graphic themes and images during the Super Bowl with no notice to America's families, leaving many feeling "ambushed" by content they considered inappropriate for their kids? Jonathan Rintels: The High Cost of Seeing Janet's Boob
But colonists' victories were rare in the first half of a war that saw more than a dozen towns burned and entire companies ambushed by Indian marksmen firing flintlock muskets.
Whether you're ambushed, mortared at your base camp or on patrol, that, ladies and gentlemen, is combat.
Soon, with a sudden icy feeling of dismay, he knew one thing: he was lost bushed with no idea of where he stood or where he was going.
At a pass, they are ambushed by a band of outlaws!
Indeed, the strong brew seemed to have gone straight to the tips of his hair, for it bushed out from his scalp like a dandelion seedhead. The Falcons of Montabard
All were ambushed on major highways regularly traveled by journalists.
Iraqi forces ambushed marines when they crossed the Euphrates river near Nassiriya.
Howard survived, just as he did in January when he was ambushed in a North Side car wash.
He was ambushed by angry protesters during a walkabout in Bolton.
The party is ambushed by Cherokee Indians who attack with bow and arrow, tomahawks, and a handful of lever action rifles.
Twenty minutes later, the TV cameramen all but ambushed Camilla and Charles as they emerged from the Guildhall as man and wife.
The operation began after three officers were injured when dozens of gang members ambushed 12 police cars on the drugs raid. Times, Sunday Times
The neglected backyard is below, and to its left are the neighbouring gardens and the posh houses and treed and bushed gardens beyond.
Emma's face is red with anger, her eyes flash in fury and her hair seems to have bushed out with rage.
Earlier Tuesday, rebels manning the blockade ambushed an army truck, killing at least four soldiers and wounding two others shortly after troops defused a roadside bomb, officials said.
A British infantry patrol has been ambushed by a group of insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman. Times, Sunday Times
The Guatemalan army says rebels ambushed and killed 10 patrolmen.
They bushed out a safe way across the frozen lake.
ONE of two men who went on the run after a prison van was ambushed by an armed gang was behind bars last night. The Sun
A woman was ambushed by carjackers who threatened her with a gun and made off with her BMW convertible last week.
France had been well and truly ambushed; the arrogant swagger of the autumn was but a distant memory. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Blair was first ambushed by dripping Evening Press chief reporter Mike Laycock during his visit to flood-hit York.
Kirsty revealed how she had spoken to Paul on his mobile phone only moments before he was ambushed.
If you get yourself "bushed" (lost) on one of these legs, you also need to be able to navigate on a "back bearing" using the compass to backtrack your way out.
The prosecution said that Vang ambushed some victims and chased one.
I shot him a look, but was soon ambushed by a sheaf of papers being thrust at me.
So while we were in the cart, some of my soldiers ambushed the officers and stole their uniforms.
Five soldiers died after their bus was ambushed on a country road.
The Algerian team bus was ambushed before the game. The Sun
A young Ilkley landlord is recovering from a terrifying ordeal in which he was ambushed by two armed burglars.
The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods.
I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish.
All in all, Steven Wright sounds like he's downright bushed.
This is to stop prosecutors being "ambushed" by evidence that they have no time to check.
He and his aide were ambushed and tommy - gunned to death by four young officers.
ONE of two men who went on the run after a prison van was ambushed by an armed gang was behind bars last night. The Sun
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London posing for photos with fans at the Newseum on Wednesday, where they had just "ambushed" a local writer on camera for one of those fashion makeovers on their "What Not to Wear" show. Hey, isn't that...?: Clinton Kelly and Stacy London of "What Not to Wear"
He was ambushed by angry protesters during a walkabout in Bolton.
Earlier this month, more than 60 people ambushed the Rural Affairs Minister near Flamborough Head, to question him about why he wants to ban hunting.
Five soldiers died after their bus was ambushed on a country road.
The operation began after three officers were injured when dozens of gang members ambushed 12 police cars on the drugs raid. Times, Sunday Times
Only at the last minute was he ambushed by the idiotic baying for "tax cuts" we were never going to be able to afford.
Apparently a party of passing Coosa—headed here—ambushed them. Fire The Sky
Ministers and MSPs still fear being ambushed by moral majoritarians.
The hum was like the far singing of a child-choir, and the dreamings it started then were altogether too big for the memory mechanism of a little boy's head; but the vastness and wonder of those dreamings left a kind of bushed beauty far back in his mind. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
She bushed up to almost twice her size, put her ears back flat against her skull, and hissed like an over-heated radiator.
Three masked men ambushed the embassy official as he carried the cash in two suitcases to a waiting chauffeur-driven limo. The Sun
Malvo ambushed him, shanked him, and got him to reveal the name of his employer.
A British infantry patrol has been ambushed by a group of insurgents. Times, Sunday Times
Two generations back they still stood dark and empty; people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the keyhole and made off; for within, it was supposed, the plague lay ambushed like a basilisk, ready to flow forth and spread blain and pustule through the city. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
He was ambushed by two men firing shotguns as his cab pulled up outside.
The police ambushed the dealer in a bogus arrest, stripped him of cash and drugs then sent him on his way.
Everybody thought our train would be ambushed, but we got out safely.

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