Escaut
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
They went virtually intact, and without pressure, toward positions along the Escaut River in front of Ghent, Lille, Lens.
From Time Magazine Archive
On November 3d the Thirty-seventh had completed its mission in dividing the enemy across the Escaut River and firmly established itself along the east bank included in the division zone of action.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March
The British crossed the Escaut canal and the Canadians penetrated some of the environs of Cambrai.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March
By a clever flanking movement, troops of the Ninety-first Division captured Spitaals Bosschen, a difficult wood extending across the central part of the division sector, reached the Escaut, and penetrated into the town of Audenarde.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
"The dread of some disaster which would ruin a large portion of the departments of the Lys and of the Escaut kept the inhabitants constantly in a state of frightful anxiety."
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by John Durand
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
