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Example sentences for "sandbagged"

Lexicographically close words:
sandals; sandalwood; sandarac; sandarach; sandbag; sandbags; sandbank; sandbanks; sandbar; sandbars
  1. They caught the man who sandbagged me, and who I presume sawed your plank through, and shot him last night.

  2. Being sandbagged seems to have given you an appetite," Furley observed.

  3. The battery had excellent gun-pits, sandbagged in front.

  4. Our ward is on the first floor on one side of the yard, and the barred windows are sandbagged up part of the way.

  5. Consequently, when we relieved the French the trenches were little better than ditches, and we had not even sandbagged parapets erected or barbed wire entanglements thrown out in front.

  6. This particular redoubt was a circular sandbagged construction large enough to allow sixty men to fire through the loopholes, and had two lines of entanglements round it with one narrow path through them to enable us to get in or out.

  7. The shattered sheds about the yard and the half-ruined main building had been sandbagged and strengthened by the enemy's engineers, as though they had intended to hold it.

  8. It seemed odd to plunge suddenly into an atmosphere of merriment within a few yards of the men posted at the periscopes along the sandbagged parapet.

  9. Sandbagged walls around the hospital tents, as shown in Figure H-4, or lightly constructed buildings provide protection from fallout.

  10. Windows can be sandbagged or covered with dirt from the outside to provide additional protection.

  11. The trenches were mostly sandbagged barricades such as had been seen as Festubert, but here they were neatly revetted with expanded metal, and although there was a good deal of water, all the trench floors were boarded.

  12. The ground was so marshy that it was impossible to dig trenches, and the line hereabouts was held by a series of sandbagged barricades, approached by two roads (Willow Road and Yellow Road) devoid of any kind of cover.

  13. My rifle was lying across the sandbagged parapet.

  14. Of course, he resumed control as soon as he reached home, and his next move was to have me quietly sandbagged while he froze my father out.

  15. If I'm not, it will be because somebody has sandbagged me between the bank and the train.

  16. He was sandbagged or shanghaied, whatever that is, but he is well now, on a ship bound for Australia, and will be home in about three months.

  17. I've been sandbagged and robbed, and evidently sold to you for a sailor, which I am not.

  18. The Chinese riflemen, being on a slightly lower level and forced to fire upwards at the Japanese positions, caused many of their bullets to skim the sandbagged crest and strike the line of roofs behind.

  19. This new angle of native houses are being sandbagged and loopholed.

  20. The circular parapet can be built up any thickness, as just said; it should then be sandbagged over till the required height.

  21. You can rely on sandbagged safety in the villages, but on the way from there to the trenches you merely trust your luck; for the moment your life has gone out of your keeping.

  22. The door, which faced towards the enemy's lines, was also sandbagged up, and a new door had been made by knocking out an opening through the mud-brick wall.

  23. An Artillery Observing Officer spent a perilous hour or two amongst the shrapnel and snipers' bullets on top of the sandbagged wall, until he had located the minnenwerfer.

  24. An' if they see that window sandbagged up it's a straight tip to them this is a Post of some sort, an' a hearty invitation to them to plunk a shell or two in on us.

  25. All day long and all around there was a perfect hail of bullets from the snipers, some going right through the hospital grounds from Boland's bakery, which, sandbagged and loopholed, was filled with Sinn Feiners.

  26. Accordingly, I took my courage in both hands and walked past the soldiers opposite the Post Office and the sandbagged windows, and asked the guard at the main door if I could have an interview with their President.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandbagged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.