Example Sentences

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In the first inning, the team had ambushed Padres starter Yu Darvish for four runs on long balls from Freddie Freeman and Andy Pages.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

When we met early this month in Beverly Hills, Calif., Butler was running late, in part because a TMZ videographer had ambushed him.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

They had ambushed people’s souls, and as their concept crumbled by midweek, the fans themselves did seem to get an alluring win.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2021

He acknowledged that the situation in the game, the emotion of it, had ambushed him with just one out to go.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

The turtle, the dead-end channel, the cliff...Hazel got the feeling this was not the first time the letter writer had ambushed a ship here.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan