"surprise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the exchanging off of the pair of bishops had taken the punch out of surprise counterattacks and thus simplified White's play.
- He was conceding Karpov terrain and relying on surprise counterattack.
- On 16 December 1944, the Germans launched a surprise counterattack through the forests of the Ardennes.
- So did rape-crisis counselors and prosecutors who specialize in rape cases, saying that a surprise counterattack could provoke an already angry assailant to even greater violence.
- Compounding the Russian military's problems, the rebels staged a surprise counterattack on soldiers in the Staraya Sunzha area, just north of the city.
- That same night, a surprise Japanese counterattack on shore left large numbers of wounded near Garapan requiring evacuation.
- Sentries were on duty on all sides to safeguard against a surprise counterattack.
- The surprise counterattack sent the Allies reeling back 50 miles; 16,000 Americans, mostly infantrymen, died and tens of thousands were wounded or taken prisoner.
- The Russians captured Grozny in the 1994-96 war, only to have the militants take it back in a surprise counterattack.
- This bridgehead was subjected to a major surprise counterattack by German forces on 5 October, but the 193rd was successful in helping to narrowly hold it.
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