This fortification is by no means as strong as the famous Wall of the Tartar city in Pekin and could be easily breached by the fire of heavy guns.
The railway has been breached in several places by floods, and three bridges have been washed away.
The wall of sandbags was tumbled andbreached in all directions.
The spray of the sea aids the decomposition of the rocks, and prepares them to be breached by the mechanical force of the waves.
He had fenced it in, but the cattle breached the fence and he could not repair it perfectly while the storm lasted.
This circle, or rather horse-shoe shaped ring, is open to the south, and is breached by several other wide spaces.
Concluding remarks on the craters of tuff, and on the breached condition of their southern sides.
The poor creature had seen from the Casa Alvarez that the outer wall of Vallejo had been so breached that a push would precipitate it into the street upon the barricade.
The walls were breached by the explosion this morning, and the French must now be in full possession of it.
They swarmed up to and through the breached barricades, and ran a race with death towards the grim skeletons of the shattered houses.
And here we find remarkable cases of "breached cones," or craters, which will require some special description.
In the case of the moon, however, we fail to observe any decided instances of breached craters, with lava-streams, such as those I have described.
In one instance mentioned by Scrope, the original upper limit of the lake of molten lava has left its mark in the form of a ring of slag on the inside of the breached crater.
The cause of this breached form is sufficiently obvious.
At rare intervals a few crescent-shaped ridges are discernible on the lunar sphere, but it is very doubtful if they are to be regarded as breached craters.
It has also been shown that in many instances these crater-walls have been breached on one side, and that streams of molten lava which once occupied the cup to a greater or less height, have poured down the mountain side.
Another remarkable case is mentioned and figured by Judd, where one of the Lipari Isles, composed of pumice and rising out of the Mediterranean, has been breached by a lava-stream of obsidian.
On the following morning the engineer fixed on a place for the batteries on the opposite side of the river, and breached an enormous bastion, which, like that of the fort of Mundellah, ran down to the water's edge.
The breached bastion was found to be a tough piece of masonry, extremely thick and well put together; so we pegged away at its foundation.
We breached a corner bastion of the town, the base of which ran down into the river, on the banks of which we could approach the breach out of sight, and pounce upon it unobserved, and out of the reach of their cannon and small arms.
The breached bastion seemed to bow its haughty head to our roaring guns, and the 20th was talked of as the day for storming it.
If the scarp be of earth only, the sappers will soon prepare a passage for the escalade; but if revetted with masonry, the walls must be breached with hollow shot, or scaled by means of ladders.
The works at Bomarsund were taken by means of land-batteries, which breached the exposed walls of the towers and main works.
Mrs. Knox, in shrill and trenchant tones, delivering her real attack now that she had breached the wall.
Yet this special case of paired gaps in the opposite walls of a breached anticline is manifestly a direct sequence of the development of the Juniata headwaters.
The stream traverses a breached anticlinal of Medina sandstone, of which these mountains are the lateral members.
The besieged breached their own wall under it, and secretly drew away the core; propping the cavity with balks of timber, and then filling it with combustibles.
Zanghi breached the walls by undermining one of the towers; the stormers overtook the flying garrison before they could enter the citadel; and an indiscriminate massacre brought the Christian dominion to an end.
Our sangars were frequently breached by the 40-lb.
About twelve consecutive shots pitched within a five yards' radius, and one crashed into and nearly breached the parapet, which was here about six feet thick and built of large stones.
At dawn the firing would recommence from the Arkabân hill; at dawn the helpless child would be in the half-breached bastion exposed to that fire!
The whale Tichel struck had sounded; and just after Brander killed, it breached before his eyes, under the very bows of Tichel's boat.
The whale was coming up slowly; the line was still slack, but the creature should have breached long before.
There is nothing whatever to be done until the Turks have breached the wall, and are ready to advance to attack us.
Of its Castle, which stood near the north end of what is now the Skinnergate, not a trace now remains; of its ancient walls, besieged and breached so often in the wars between Scots and English, scarcely a vestige.
On this occasion it was bravely held by about a hundred defenders, including a dozen of its monks; but it was breached and stormed, and "as many Scots slain as were within.
Inside the breached building my companions joined me, and while the shells from the battery and from the other batteries farther away went racketing over us toward Noyon we held a consultation of war.
There is a village ahead of you; it is a village without roofs to its houses, or dwellers within its breached and tottering walls.
The Nubians built a tower with a battering ram and breached the walls, and they poured into the town and slew every one they found.
They were first used on the works in defence of the Martiniere, fired from the Dilkoosha park, and were advanced as the out-works were carried till they breached the defences around the Begum's palace on the 11th of March.
Its roof is gone, shot clear away in a shower of shattered tiling, and its walls are breached in a hundred places.
Their industries were paralyzed, and their liberties were curtailed, and every other house was a breached and worthless shell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breached" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
