foxholes in English

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a hole in the ground used by troops as a shelter against enemy fire or as a firing point.
With his group completely surrounded and cut off, he moved from foxhole to foxhole exposing himself to enemy fire, giving instructions and offering encouragement to his men.
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1. We dug foxholes around the airstrip and tried to hold our ground.

2. The trip north passed bombed Antiaircraft guns, empty foxholes and berms dug for tanks that had been abandoned by armed forces.

3. The Americans later referred to this day as "Dugout Sunday" because the continuous Japanese air, naval, and artillery attacks kept many of the Lunga defenders in their foxholes and shelters throughout the day.

4. Far from an organized, top-down ceasefire, the Christmas Truce instead was a series of small Armistices that bubbled up from the men in the foxholes deciding to fraternize with the enemy.

5. 1 day ago · In what could be a war of a GOP primary, Brooks is leaning hard into his Combative image, “America can simply not afford senators who cower in their foxholes when the political battles are being