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How to use breastworks in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word breastworks? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Behind these natural breastworks, the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen.
He ordered soldiers to tear down breastworks and use the logs to feed the fires.
Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable.
They worked to erect small semicircular breastworks from the many rocks that dotted the terrain.
From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.
When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains.
The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees.
The regiment gained the enemy's breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over.
Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries.
The cavalry horses were watered at the spring, and the men settled in their breastworks.
The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks, throwing up great clouds of dirt.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was Teck Pervis of old, the defiant, blood-thirsty rebel in the rifle pit glaring over the breastworks at the enemy.
And they lay around the breastworks from river to river, a chain of dead and dying.
There was a hole in Sangamon's breastworks, made by the spreading out of her men.
This left great gaps in my line of breastworks, unprotected by anything save a vidette or two.
Both camps were therefore fortified by great trenches, breastworks, and palisadoes.
The German trenches were formed of enormous breastworks 12 to 15 feet wide, and were revetted with brushwood.
It was on the left, fronting Strickland's and Moore's, on the breastworks.
Those outside of the hut threw up two breastworks, into which they retired at a tolerably early hour, and slept like overfed hounds.
Day and night the men worked at the breastworks and bridges.
Rodes's alabamian's passed the abattis, touched the breastworks.
And again he used them as breastworks in foraging at the boardinghouse.
Then in the afternoon there was a grand charge upon the Rebel breastworks.
The British were within two hundred yards of the American breastworks.
The regiments were all under arms at the breastworks at six o'clock.
Before they moved off, Drew turned his head to the breastworks.
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