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Example sentences for "commanding position"

  • General Curtis, riding to the front of Carr's right, found in advance a rising ground which gave a commanding position for a battery, posted the Dubuque battery there, and moved forward the right to its support.

  • It occupies a commanding position in Capitol Square (7.

  • Albi occupies a commanding position on the left bank of the Tarn; it is united to its suburb of La Madeleine on the right bank by a medieval and a modern bridge.

  • As premier, Andrassy by his firmness, amiability and dexterity as a debater, soon won for himself a commanding position.

  • Headswood, as its name implies, occupies a commanding position.

  • It occupies a commanding position, enjoying especially an extensive marine prospect.

  • Every inch of standing room aboard was already packed, but I got a commanding position by clambering high up, with some others, on to a derrick-boom.

  • We took up a commanding position at the top, overlooking the bridge, so as to cover the convoy while it descended and crossed.

  • About three miles off, after climbing a long hill, we unlimbered the guns in a commanding position, and remained there till dark, in the close and fragrant neighbourhood of about twenty dead horses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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