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Example sentences for "sangar"

Lexicographically close words:
sanely; saner; sanest; sanft; sang; sangaree; sangars; sangfroid; sanglant; sangre
  1. Nineveh, marched to Kar-Salmanassar, and there received the tribute of Sangar of Karchemish, Kutaspi of Kummukh, and others.

  2. Shapalulme, the prince of the Patinai at that time, combined with Sangar of Karchemish and Akhuni of Tul-Barsip.

  3. As the handful of men crept up the rocky slope a sangar came into view, which was suggestive.

  4. The leading Pathan signalled with his hand that all should go silently, and crouch; a few more yards were covered in this way, and then the sangar was rushed.

  5. When he fell dead, after making his way close up to our sangar and shooting Major Miller-Wallnutt, the Orange Free State lost one of its foremost citizens and bravest fighters.

  6. The new gun which Boers were mounting yesterday on Middle Hill opened to-day, shelling first the Rifle Brigade piquets on King's Post and then the sangar of the Manchesters in Cæsar's Camp.

  7. And ever amid the clangor, Butchering Hun and Hun, With sorrowful face rides Sangar And his son.

  8. Oh, there was joy in Heaven when Sangar came.

  9. The sangar at first fell into the hands of the Russians, but they were soon ejected, and small British detachments reoccupied and held it, while the various Russian attacks flowed up and past it and ebbed back into the Quarry Ravine.

  10. The officer who hoisted it could see no one unhurt save himself, for all in his sangar were hit, and the others were so placed that he was under the impression that they had withdrawn altogether.

  11. Two companies of the Gloucesters lined a sangar on the tread of the sole, to prevent any one getting too near to the heel.

  12. In spite of sangar and trench, that cross fire was finding them out; and no feint or demonstration on either side came to draw the concentrated fire from their position.

  13. They made straight for the sangar and formed in a circle round it, firing outwards without visible target.

  14. Instead of keeping under shelter of the sangar when the guns on Bulwan were shelling the position, he must needs go outside "to have a look.

  15. He is thought to have been one of the old man's field cornets, and had fought up to the sangar at his side till a bullet pierced his eye and brain.

  16. By late afternoon the enormous sangar was almost finished.

  17. The Gurkha escort took up a position behind a sangar and opened fire--all save one man, who stood by his yak and refused to come under cover, despite the shouts and warnings of his comrades.

  18. The opening is walled in by a sangar of stones 5 feet high, from which pine-branches support a projecting roof.

  19. This advance guard was ordered to direct its attack on the sangar on the right with well-directed volleys till the guns and the remainder of the force could come into position.

  20. As soon as the enemy had been cleared from A sangar, Colonel Kelly directed his attention to B sangar, and attacked it in a similar manner, and just as the enemy had fled from the first, they now vacated B sangar also.

  21. This sangar was only about eighty yards from the defenders' covered way to the water.

  22. When the advanced party reached about half way up this spur, it was fired on from a sangar which is across the road, and at the same time men appeared on all the mountain tops and ridges, and stones were rolled down all the shoots.

  23. The guns then took up a position on the right and opened on A sangar at a range of 825 yards.

  24. On another occasion the Chitralis had built a sangar on the hill-side and from it wounded two ponies in the inside of the fort.

  25. Some days afterwards a sangar was built about 300 yards below the fort, but Lieutenant Moberly moved out with a party of eighty sepoys and rushed it.

  26. By the time that I had reached within about one hundred yards of the sangar at this end I had only two sepoys left with me unwounded, and it was therefore impossible for me to proceed any further.

  27. Before dusk the ammunition and the wounded had to be transported from the sangar near the river to the house.

  28. The British officers found it impossible to hold the original sangar on the cliff by the river, for it was exposed to fire from the opposite bank, and had no head-cover.

  29. Sangar after sangar was obstinately held; each sangar as it was rushed coming at once under fire of the one above it.

  30. When the troops arrived within eight hundred yards, volley firing was opened; and the guns threw shells on the sangar on the extreme right of the enemy's position.

  31. The force here were occupying a sangar they had formed, but so heavy a fire was opened, from the surrounding hills, that it was found impossible to hold the position.

  32. A party of Kashmir volunteers then went down to the other sangar and brought the wounded in, under a heavy fire.

  33. They rushed sangar after sangar, taking them in rear and driving out the enemy pell mell, killing many and capturing a large number of prisoners.

  34. When the advanced party reached about halfway up this spur, it was fired on from a sangar which had been built across the road and, at the same time, men appeared on all the mountain tops and ridges, and stones were rolled down all the shoots.

  35. He cunningly arranged his sangar so that he should expose no head at all.

  36. The cramped-up Tommy in his sangar was scarcely as conscious of his risk of danger from shot and shell as of the aching void that assured him how much nature abhorred a vacuum.

  37. But the white rags, fluttering just clear of the brow of the rise, were marked in an instant from the sangar of "D.

  38. But the Boers fired no round until, at 800 yards, the foremost British sangar was visible through the long grass.

  39. Then from a sangar lower down the line where the cliffs of the nullah curved outwards they were seen and the alarm was given.

  40. There is a new sangar being built in the garden.

  41. There was a new sangar to-night, close to the North Tower, which had not existed yesterday.

  42. The new sangar would not be built that night.

  43. The guns now took up position on the right and opened on 'A' sangar at a range of eight hundred and twenty-five yards.

  44. They were evidently cooking their evening meal, as thin columns of smoke rose from each sangar in the still evening air.

  45. We kept climbing and gradually working round the face of the hill to the right, until we struck the snow line, and I calculated we were pretty well as high as any sangar the enemy might have on the hill.

  46. We struck the nullah close opposite the empty sangar No.

  47. The fire from the sangar had recommenced, as Stewart's attention had been turned towards others, so Colonel Kelly sent orders to Stewart to send in one or two more shells, which had the desired effect.

  48. Stewart had got his guns into action and was shelling sangar No.

  49. About three miles ahead we could distinctly see a sangar filled with men on the left bank of the river.

  50. Nevertheless, you shall come with us as far as the Sangar River, but you shall not touch the 'chop' of my men, nor shall you speak with them.

  51. That night the column halted near a village, and Sanders sent the woman, under escort, to the chief, with orders to see her safely to the Sangar River.

  52. So I will go with you, until you reach the Sangar River, which leads to the Congo.

  53. Sangar sent him tribute consisting of lapis-lazuli "of Babylon," and of various objects carved out of it.

  54. In hieroglyphic and cuneiform spelling, Sangar and Sankhar are the exact equivalents of the Hebrew Shinar.

  55. He could not fire now, but he fixed his bayonet and charged the sangar with his broken weapon.

  56. But Nur Baz was happy as he leapt from one great boulder to another, the ground spitting up under him, and stopped every moment to get in a shot at the men in the sangar in front.

  57. Sangar of Carchemish and the Khâti refused to pay their tribute, and the Emirs of Tul-Abnî and Mount Kashiari broke out into open revolt.

  58. The position of Sangar Strait, between Yezo and Niphon, being very uncertain, Kruzenstern resolved to determine it.


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