ambuscade

How To Use ambuscade In A Sentence

• When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job. Chennai
• The enemy had overheard the firing and ambuscaded us. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
• Somewhere nearby, I imagine, lying in ambuscade among the trees. A TIME OF WAR
• They were going down the path, directly beneath the ambuscade! The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
• Wherefore, then, did he steal in ambuscade into my palace, but to betray either my honor or my life, – perhaps both! The Scottish Chiefs
• ‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.
• O subjugator of all foes beginnest thou thy march when the time cometh, having taken into consideration all the omens you might see, the resolutions thou hast made, and that the ultimate victory depends upon the twelve mandalas (such as reserves, ambuscades, &c, and payment of pay to the troops in advance)? The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
• Mr Campion shuddered to think of the kind of ambuscade Uncle William might have arranged had he ever conceived the idea of such a method of shelving the suspicion against him. Police at the Funeral
• In politics, as in war, we meet with certain ardent minds which never understand the utility of marches, counter marches, ambuscades, and affairs of outposts.
• Glad to escape so easily, the young acolyte disappeared down the alley of fig trees, not without a furtive look at the patches of chickweed around their roots, the possible ambuscade of creeping or saltant vermin. On the Frontier