Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "direct attack"

  • Shall it be carried by direct attack, and, until so subdued, arrest the progress of the army?

  • Forts Jackson and St. Philip, which the fleet could not have reduced by direct attack, fell by the severance of their communications.

  • Still Montcalm could not be brought to risk anything by a counter stroke: a direct attack on his camp seemed hopelessly rash, but there was apparently no alternative.

  • It consisted mainly in a direct attack on the French army posted on a wooded ridge, their centre occupying the only gap in the woods.

  • Lord Gough's fighting temper was roused, and he did precisely what the enemy could have desired: he ordered his infantry to make a direct attack.

  • After adjusting the line of the brigades, and giving their march the points of direction, General Jenkins rode to his brigades on the front to handle them in direct attack.

  • But he preferred his plan of direct attack as the armies stood, and opened his battle by attack of the right wing at 9.

  • In these conditions no direct attack by the heavy ships was possible, but Spragge was in hopes that something might be done with a fireship after dark.

  • Even yet the queen shrank from making a direct attack on Spain, and preferred to injure her enemy by assisting his rebellious subjects in the Low Countries.

  • The calculation was, that an invasion of this part of his dominions would cause the King of Spain more harm than a direct attack at home, since he drew by far the best part of his revenue from the American mines.

  • The Afghans continued to hold the advanced ridge constituting their first position until two o'clock, when a direct attack, accompanied by a double flanking fire, compelled their withdrawal.

  • The projecting spur toward Charasiah which was the extreme right of the Afghan position, was held in force, whence an effective fire would bear on the left flank of a force advancing to a direct attack on the pass.

  • Sir Frederick Roberts at a glance had perceived that a direct attack by the Babawali Kotul must involve very heavy loss, and he resolved on the alternative of turning the Afghan position.

  • That he was strong enough to make a direct attack by storming the Babawali Kotul and the Pir Paimal hill was clear in the light of previous experience.

  • As the fort and its defenses could not have been carried by direct attack, without immense loss of life; it was determined to cease operations until morning, in order to give the flanking columns time to reach the positions assigned to them.

  • By this time the enemy's position had been reconnoitered, and it was found to be too strong for a direct attack.

  • McClellan's reserves might be coming up, and if the battle was to be won, it must be won by direct attack.

  • A direct attack on Pope was impossible, but a turning movement, by way of James City, might have found him unprepared, or a swift advance might have crushed King.

  • It was undoubtedly risky, but it was far less dangerous than a direct attack on the strong position along Bull Run.

  • Even with regular troops a direct attack on a single point of passage would have been difficult.

  • On the morning of the 1st of May the whole Rebel army, except what was left to watch Sedgwick, was put in motion, with the intention of making a direct attack.

  • I did not intend to make an attack on the right till that position was taken, which I supposed would stagger the enemy, cutting their line in two; and then I proposed to make a direct attack in front and drive them out of their works.

  • This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit, and rendered a direct attack impracticable.

  • Smith's division, not so much by way of a direct attack as a diversion and threat.

  • While these preparations were being made, the Confederates attempted to drive Campbell from his position by a direct attack through an open field.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct attack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain people; commercial sexual; direct action; direct course; direct experience; direct legislation; direct object; direct pressure; direct proportion; direct question; direct ratio; direct vote; direction contrary; direction from; directions given; directly after; directly contrary; directly proportional; good look; international connections; little silence; particular description; school teacher; small city; uric acid; young master