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Example sentences for "broken ground"

  • The final scene was just completed when I reached the spot--on foot, for in the rough scramble through forest and broken ground I had managed to get thrown, gun and all, and preferred to finish the pursuit on my legs.

  • Broken ground is the exception in any district much affected by bustard; and therefore the most must be made of the slight undulations which these rolling plains afford.

  • Through this confused mass of broken ground, so favourable to the methods of fighting of its defenders, ran the three roads which connect Colenso and Ladysmith.

  • A Nek of land connects this kopje with the apex of a triangular patch of broken ground, stretching several miles northward, with its eastern side at right angles to the railway.

  • Their attempt to cut off the gun was also quite stopped by musketry from some thick bush and broken ground.

  • A couple appeared looming hazily through the smoke, and at another call labored heavily over the broken ground to him.

  • But he saw nothing except the tumbled sea of broken ground, saw no sign of rising men, no sign of movement.

  • Between Jebel Selman and the NefĂ»d lie several isolated hills rising from broken ground.

  • In front there is a pleasant terrace overlooking an agreeable prospect of broken ground, with glimpses of the desert beyond.

  • These all rise abruptly from the smooth sloping surface of the plain, and, unlike the mountains of most countries, with no interval of broken ground.

  • To the westward of these is broken ground nearly to Petit Manan.

  • It is 2 to 3 miles in diameter and has depths of about 40 fathoms over a bottom of broken ground of rocks and gravel.

  • It has depths of from 45 to 80 fathoms over a bottom of broken ground, rocks, and mud.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assured himself; broken bone; broken country; broken covenant; broken down; broken glass; broken ground; broken head; broken only; broken pottery; broken stone; broken water; chief priests; coffee plantation; conspired against; coral formation; drew her; foregone conclusion; give below; heavy cannonade; lord king; make things; room full; small portions; steam vessel; violent hurry