"surprise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sometimes, insurgents can ambush incumbents, doing little until right before election day and then springing a surprise offensive.
- The citation documents the team's pivotal role in turning back the North Vietnamese Army's massive surprise offensive of 1972.
- Earlier this month, the Croatian Army launched a surprise offensive near the town of Medak, capturing several villages.
- This is the second surprise offensive by the Iraqi Army within a month.
- The Athenian army, outnumbered four to one, launched a surprise offensive, and what looked like suicide turned out to be astonishing victory.
- On 16 December, the Germans launched a surprise offensive through the Ardennes Forest which became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
- The motorised logistics also helped during the rapid redeployment to the south, after the surprise Republican offensive at Brunete in July 1937.
- When the Poles learned that the enemy had camped for the night within the vicinity, a vanguard was assembled to engage in a surprise offensive.
- When the Russians launched their surprise offensive in January 1916, culminating in the Battle of Koprukoy the army numbered 65,000 men and 100 guns.
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