enfilade
enfilades
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present tense formof enfilade (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.
From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield
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 Richard Harding Davis
Everything is jumbled under this terrible fire which enfilades from all sides.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart
"It's not much of a place for it," he said; "where we ought to have it is to the right of the sap, so that it enfilades the whole front of that trench."
From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
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 Major W. E Frye
