Sambre
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The car was traced three weeks later to the suspect's home in Pont-sur Sambre.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2022
It is thought that people in the area were fond of frying small fish from the River Sambre et Meuse and when the river froze over one year they began frying strips of potato instead.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2016
Both sides claimed the best of it but the German drive continued up the Sambre Valley and northwest toward Louvain.
From Time Magazine Archive
When German troops crossed the River Somme, 70 miles from Paris, an official press release placed them on Belgium's River Sambre, 80 miles farther away.
From Time Magazine Archive
An order came to hurry up so that the bridges over the Sambre could be blown up before the Germans came; but it was waste of breath.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.
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