"sustained" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The division saw much combat and sustained heavy casualties, particularly at the Battle of Metz.
- Attacks, even if successful, often sustained severe casualties as a matter of course.
- White's brigade was composed of green regiments and sustained heavy casualties in this, their first engagement ever.
- They failed in the conflict and sustained heavy casualties from tropical disease.
- In an advance across 600 yards of flooded no-man's land, the British sustained 2,700 casualties.
- On 26 June small Soviet forces tried to break out from the siege but were unsuccessful and sustained heavy casualties.
- She acted as a hospital ship and sustained casualties, losing nearly a quarter of the crew.
- During the battle Irresistible sustained casualties of five killed and 14 wounded.
- The French sustained heavy casualties in the action, while the numbers of American dead and wounded were low.
- The British sustained approximately 4,000 casualties - much more than the medical units could cope with.
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