How To Use Defilade In A Sentence
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The tanks and infantry should not go together because the tanks will be slowed down and the artillery fire that will fall on the tanks would cause casualties, and the infantry may be able to approach the objective from a direction unsuitable for tanks to take advantage of defilade. 37
Steel Victory
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From our defiladed position Staff Sergeant Skiba's tank fired on several machine-gun nests from which fire was visible, then picked up a log emplacement located at extreme top of hill on our right and fired several rounds of 75mm.
Steel Victory
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I've been setting up enfilade fire from defilade positions, with aspects of grazing/plunging speculative fire suppression all morning.
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Swagger started to rotate right, to get around the bumpers of both cars, flank the shooter, and take him down from the low defilade, even as he knew that if the guy was no idiot, he too would now be on the move, rotating also to the right.
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After returning to a defiladed position, he skillfully rescued and evacuated a wounded officer.
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In backing out of defiladed position the tank threw a track.
Steel Victory
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This road, which followed the course of the Reno River and was partially defiladed from the west over much of the distance, was the more protected of the two.
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So there you sit twiddling your thumbs, with hull defiladed.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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It shares the disadvantage of most Soviet tanks in having limited ability to depress the main gun, thus not being capable of firing effectively from defilade and being forced to expose itself to engage targets.
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During a later assault, six enemy soldiers gained a defiladed spot and began to throw grenades into the perimeter making it untenable.
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It was ideal for for engaging targets in ravines, reverse slope positions, and in other defiladed positions.
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Later, we backed into defilade long enough to reload our 90 mm ammunition, then reoccupied our position on the crest of the hill and resumed firing.
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The inner cordon positions must set where they will be in defilade of the other inner cordon positions and the assault force in the event of a direct fire engagement.
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That is, a flying disk that will "locate defiladed combatants in complex urban terrain" and annihilate them using a bunker-buster warhead.
Pentagon to Cities: Drop Dead
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And, again, quite prominent pieces of terrain where you can have good what's called defilade fire but you have to be very careful about being isolated.
CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2006
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In fog, darkness, or defilade, other Germans will recognize this man as their own and not shoot at him.
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I will tell you now that I shot only once in my military career, and that in so doing I murdered the woolen hat of my sergeant which he had lost leaping into a nearby defilade.
The light that draws the flower
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Get your hull defiladed, Sergeant!" shouted Krasnoy urgently.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Miller's direct front, left, and right were fighting in defilade and possessed ample cover and concealment necessary for the employment of overwhelming fires on the totally exposed patrol.
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Staff Sergeant Skiba's tank drove around the obstacles to the left and Sergeant Call to the right, and took up a defiladed position behind the bank approximately one hundred yards apart.
Steel Victory
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Kitteh tank in defilade behine wall waitin for burdie squad to be lunches!
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Terrain defilade is a key factor for early warning system (EWS) in detecting low altitude targets, effective algorithm provides the foundation of operational simulation.
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I backed my way across the river with rifle leveled and took up a defilade and waited ...
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There was even a small depression, so they were almost defiladed.
Again to Carthage
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So that if people defiladed, the government will be on the hook to make good.
CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2008