"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The soldiers quickly threw up a picket line and began to dig defensive trenches.
- The remaining Iraqi forces abandoned their offensive and drove into defensive trenches.
- Leaving the area south south west they came across evidence of defensive trenches being dug.
- The tactic of a defensive trench was introduced by Salman the Persian.
- He had volunteered with thirty others to man the defensive trench in the woods.
- They were also slowed due to defensive trenches around the city that had been filled with flammable chemicals by retreating loyalist troops.
- The attacking Iraqis halted the offensive and laid down fire from defensive trenches.
- I asked, indicating a work gang apparently digging a defensive trench.
- Lawton finally took the defensive trenches on the crater rim by storm.
- Sergeant Ulrich took a detail through the southern segment of their defensive trench, but no luck.
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