enfilades
- present tense form of enfilade (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The trench enfilades the valley beyond, and the valley is covered with barbed-wire and gun-pits.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Davis, Richard Harding
Ehrenbreitstein completely commands all the adjacent country and enfilades the embouchure of the Moselle which flows into the Rhine at Coblentz, where there is an elegant stone bridge across the Moselle.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
Everything is jumbled under this terrible fire which enfilades from all sides.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
So necessity, the mother of invention, suggested to him a formation which poured something like two crossing enfilades into the head of the cavalry column.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
