Sentence example with the word 'enfilade'

enfilade

Definition n. gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation

Last update: October 10, 2015


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The gigantic rampart was unflanked, and the covered ways in the face of it subject to enfilade from end to end.   [Please select]

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Uncut wire and an enfilade from a redoubt which should have been blown up.   [Please select]

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"The enfilade got us from that point, of course."   [Please select]

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The Americans fired a volley; Forest's battery, which enfiladed them, poured in a deadly fire.   [Please select]

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We were running short of ammunition and our position was enfiladed.   [Please select]

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While this was going on Sherman was confronting a rebel battery which enfiladed the road on which he was marching--the Mississippi Springs road--and commanded a bridge spanning a stream over which he had to pass.   [Please select]

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"At the juncture when, in my mind's eye, I saw my gallant fellows enfiladed with a terrible fire, caught in a trap, and I, despairing, spurring on to die at their head--have I your attention."   [Please select]

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