How To Use breastwork In A Sentence
- The regiment gained the enemy's breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over.
- In front of the breastworks was another chain -- a wider and thicker one. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
- When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains.
- This was a cremaillere infantry breastwork of strong profile, with heavy enclosed redoubts at distances of 700 and 800 yards, having defensive relations to each other. Memoirs of the War of Secession
- The few warriors in the camp used their horses for breastworks, standing behind them when they were on their feet, and lying down behind them after they were shot down.11 In the midst of the struggle, the white soldiers found themselves under attack from fifteen or so dogs from the Indian camp, who tried valiantly to defend their Indian masters. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
- Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916
- The cavalry horses were watered at the spring, and the men settled in their breastworks.
- Calis gave orders for a defensive perimeter to be established, and a company began digging a breastwork. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
- The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks, throwing up great clouds of dirt.
- Behind these natural breastworks, the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen.
