Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Ho Chi Minh Trail

American  

noun

  1. a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.


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.

See Examples For:

The goal was to increase rainfall, which would muddy up the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a network of coarse roads, interrupting Vietcong supply lines.

From Scientific American Sep. 20, 2023

Larry said that Laotian civilians would have stayed away from the Ho Chi Minh Trail, knowing it was a free-fire zone.

From Washington Post Sep. 7, 2016

About the time Nowicki was making his way up the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Oelerich was arriving back home in Chicago.

From Washington Times Jul. 4, 2016

The targets were North Vietnamese troops — especially along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a large part of which passed through Laos — as well as North Vietnam’s Laotian Communist allies.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2015

Yet the supplies and soldiers continued flowing from North to South along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training