"forward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While primitive, and susceptible to damage from shell-fire, it made life a little bit more bearable for soldiers in the forward trenches.
- Duchêne's massing of his troops in the forward trenches also meant there were no local reserves to delay the Germans once the front had broken.
- The German 4th division breached the line and took the forward trenches which the British failed to recover during counter-attacks.
- They reached the forward trenches but were then shelled by the French in error.
- "It was extraordinary for a newspaper correspondent to be in the forward trenches at all; he should never have been in no man's land."
- Ben breaks up his platoon once again, sending ten of the men to the forward trench and keeping eight in the gun-pit.
- General Campbell on the left was killed before he could get a few yards beyond the parapet of the forward trench.
- Sharpe watched as his men filed into the forward trench, each holding one of the grotesquely stuffed bags.
- Red soldiers trotted past, retreating north up the road and Hill 260.8, some without weapons, running from the beating they'd taken in their forward trenches.
- The forward trenches at Fonquevillers were in a horrific condition.
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