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How To Use bridgehead In A Sentence

• WALES will benefit from the London Olympics if it uses the Games as a "bridgehead" to bring sport into education, Sebastian Coe insisted today. WalesOnline - Home
• By taking over the company, OMV said it was raising its presence in Turkey, which it considers a "bridgehead" to the Middle East and the Caspian region. OMV Taking Over Petrol Ofisi of Turkey - NYTimes.com
• The Jaff had already established his bridgehead here, of that Fletcher had no doubt. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
• At midnight on October 17, Bren Adan and his remaining officers reached the Suez Canal and established a bridgehead. NIMITZ CLASS
• The Third US Army seized a bridgehead at Oppenheim.
• an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines
• As you will remember, the First Canadian Army early in February and March had cleared the Boche from the left side of the Rhine, and the American Army had secured a bridgehead at Remagen across the Rhine. The Last Canadian Battle and the Surrender of the Germany Army
• They also rejected bridgehead double bonds and allenes, and (to my surprise) only allowed triple bonds for nitriles (so no acetylenes.)
• The German advance had flowed around the marshes of the Pripet, and although technically there was a large salient almost 100 kilometers across, with only a slender German bridgehead on the southern side of the extension, there was no way the Red Army could take advantage of this gap, even had there been the resources to mount an offensive to the north of Kiev: they would have been driving directly into an impassable swamp. Deathride
• Fretfully are cheaply a few that can be brickly as maul waggishness, and we bridgehead the compositor of them. Rational Review