At the time of this attack the brigades of the Tank Corps were distributed defensively along the First, Third, and Fourth Army fronts, in order to meet by counter-attacks any renewal of the enemy’s offensive against these Armies.
Each redoubt overlooked the storehouses close by the railroad, and each could aid the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other.
I sent back orders for him to fight defensively to save time, and that I would come up with reenforcements from the direction of Cog's Bridge, by the road which we had reached near Falling-Creek Church.
General Thomas was in Nashville, Tennessee, quietly engaged in reorganizing his army out of the somewhat broken forces at his disposal.
Wilson started on Monday, with twelve thousand cavalry, from Eastport.
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The Southern troops also had the advantage of fighting defensively in their own country to whose climate they were inured and to the diseases of which they were in the main immune.
I paid the bills for all those extras we had not counted on when Selina graduated in June," Mamma was saying, and defensively again, "and said nothing about them.
Mrs. Wistar's voice murmuring defensivelycame in from the next room.
If, however, Hood turns on you, you must act defensively on the line of the Tennessee.
The tribe is always at least defensively hostile and usually actively hostile to humanity beyond the aggregation.
He followed this by his dispatch to Burnside ordering reinforcements to be sent to Grant, and the remainder of the troops in the Department of the Ohio to be concentrated defensively in Kentucky.
With such a snarling venom did she speak that Toby drew himself almost defensively to his full height.
Then, as she became aware of what she had said, she defensively proceeded.
The Canadians now held positions which were defensively very strong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defensively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
