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Example sentences for "under heavy"

  • Under heavy fire, they advanced over country liberally seamed with ditches, one of which was so deep and wide that most of the men had to swim across it.

  • Later on he advanced into the open, under heavy fire, and held back the enemy by throwing bombs until a barricade had been erected.

  • An order was issued to all innkeepers and postmasters to refuse horses to such as endeavoured to seek safety in flight; and all persons were forbidden, under heavy fines, to harbour them or favour their evasion.

  • What was also very singular, they were bound, under heavy penalties, to put up their swords when requested to do so by a priest, a knight, or a woman.

  • I commend the Fortieth Illinois and Thirteenth Missouri for thus holding their ground under heavy fire, although their cartridge-boxes were empty.

  • Wallace, as much from the disorder arising from changes of division and brigade commanders, under heavy fire, as from any other cause, had lost its organization and did not occupy a place in the line as a division.

  • Lieutenant Hollwey’s business was to lay a telephone wire and to do so under heavy fire.

  • He belonged to the 2nd Battalion of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and he won the Cross for rescue work under heavy fire.

  • The enemy kept the captured guns under heavy fire, but Major Lumsden undertook the duty of bringing them within our lines.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after his; exceedingly dangerous; full knowledge; gold cord; under another; under arrest; under charge; under construction; under convoy; under date; under favorable; under her; under normal; under obligation; under orders; under parts; under penalty; under pretense; under sail; under side; under surface; under the firm name; under the present circumstances; under which; under whose; under wing