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Example sentences for "dislodge them"

  • To dislodge them was a dangerous undertaking, but Captain Sublette was determined to make the effort.

  • But fire-arms were mustered sufficient to dislodge them, and thus the affair ended; except that the Agent had some trouble to settle it with the Dalles Indians, who came down in a body to demand payment for the loss of their brother.

  • They took their position, as usual with Indian fighters, in a narrow ravine; from whence the camp was forced to dislodge them, at a great disadvantage.

  • The Americans might intend to cannonade Boston from this new fortification; it was unanimously resolved to dislodge them.

  • Greene ordered Colonel Washington with his dragoons and Kirkwood's Delaware infantry to dislodge them, and Colonel Wade Hampton to assist with the State troops.

  • For some considerable time they remained in this position, all our efforts to dislodge them proving of no avail.

  • For some hours we remained on the defensive, but as the enemy's numbers increased, and we were greatly harassed by their fire, a column was formed to dislodge them.

  • Company A sent a bazooka team forward to knock out the position and Company C sent all of its grenades forward, but by 1320 the Japanese soldiers were still resisting all attempts to dislodge them.

  • The Japanese resisted all the squadron's efforts to dislodge them.

  • The column halted and placed mortar fire on the Japanese but failed to dislodge them.

  • Lally, sensible of the importance of the post, took the same route in order to dislodge them; but finding all his attempts ineffectual, he retired towards Wandewash, where his troops were put into quarters of cantonment.

  • Yet, strong as this situation might appear, formidable as the Austrian forces certainly were, his Prussian majesty undertook to dislodge them with a body of horse and foot not exceeding thirty-two thousand men.

  • For two years they sustained the whole weight of the Veientine war; and all the attempts of the Veientines to dislodge them proved in vain.

  • The advantage, however, was incomplete, for a Roman garrison still held possession of the citadel, from which he was unable to dislodge them.

  • The most energetic work with the poles failing to dislodge them, John said-- "Let's have a rest.

  • If they get back we shan't be able to dislodge them: they won't be caught napping again, you may be sure.

  • We were moving upon it to dislodge them when a musket-ball struck me upon the knee, forced into the wound my trousers and drawers, and glanced off.

  • I took upon myself to adopt a modest way to dislodge them, which was sanctioned by my companions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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