Example Sentences

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The researchers say it would have ambushed its prey from the water's edge, much like crocodiles and caimans do today.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

Critics have been looking for an opportunity to test the opinion of the House and have ambushed the government while Parliament is away on its Whitsun recess.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2021

Afghan rebels claimed to have ambushed and routed a Soviet column in Bamian province northwest of Kabul.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, usurping the place of some other who would have ambushed you in real enmity, I came hither on his errand.'

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

"As I'm a Christian white man, they have bit at the bait, and have ambushed the smoke!"

From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by Cooper, James Fenimore