Example Sentences

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The operation comes in response to a Reuters series, Ambushed at Home, that revealed how families living on U.S. bases were exposed to lead poisoning, mold-related illnesses, ceiling collapses and pest infestations.

From Reuters • Apr. 11, 2019

Those steps, announced Thursday by the Army, signal the latest action to follow a Reuters series, Ambushed at Home, that exposed serious housing hazards at bases nationwide.

From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2019

Ambushed on a dark stretch of unfamiliar road in a foreign country, with her boyfriend lost somewhere in the night, Lees made a remarkable escape.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambushed in bamboo thickets where the golden radiance of the sun is intersected by stripes of shadow cast by the foliage, the animal, the better to conceal itself, assumed the colour of its environment.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Within that forest world of twilight green Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day I travel down the beetle-trail between Huge glossy boles through green infinity ...

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir