How to Use beachhead in a Sentence

beachhead

noun

• Still, the Americans would win the beachhead by the end of the day.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Friends from his hometown of Smela helped him make the beachhead.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The 741st was to land at beachheads somewhat further north.
  — oregonlive.com, 6 June 2019
• The dark things in our world and culture and lives today are in fact foretastes of damnation, the beachheads of Hell.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
• The party could yet use its cells as beachheads for more control.
  — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2017
• Hron said a way around this is to hack a Wi-Fi router and use that as a beachhead to attack the coffee maker.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
• The APCs then swim away under their own power, scooting through the waves and surf to capture a beachhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• In the end, the court was left only with Nelson to set up a beachhead on the issue of abusive property seizures.
  — Perry Grossman, Slate Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
• But television was the beachhead the movies established in my mind.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Christie said Xi is paying far more attention to each beachhead in this proxy war than Biden is.
  — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2023
• David Zwirner, one of the highest profile dealers of blue-chip art, has plans to open up a beachhead on Walker Street.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 15 June 2021
• Gaming was going to be the beachhead for mass public adoption.
  — David Karpf, Wired, 27 July 2021
• That the British actress has been able to establish such an enviable beachhead on this side of the pond fills her with wonder.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• Troops poured through the opening, and by nightfall the Omaha beachhead was secured.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• My outfit, the 7th Division, was one of the eight divisions making the initial beachheads along a 75 mile front.
  — Jessica Stahl, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
• The Tide to watch coming in strong on college basketball’s beachhead is Crimson.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• Taking the airport would give Russian forces a beachhead to ferry in troops for the assault on Ukraine’s capital.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Canadian forces pushed the Germans out and secured Juno’s beachhead by mid-afternoon, says the same source.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• After noon chow topside again. Pulled within 3000 yards of beachhead.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• In February, after heavy fighting and failed advances, the Allies were pushed back almost to the beachhead.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2022
• What would have happened if the pre-Columbian Chinese expeditions to the New World had established a beachhead?
  — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Out of the hundreds of thousands of video game artists, what makes small to medium game studios an attractive beachhead market?
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Bombers droned across the night sky as soldiers scrambled onto the beachhead, taking cover behind huts and clusters of palm trees.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Michelle a significant beachhead on the Oregon wine front.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2022
• On the other hand, casualties were lighter than expected, and the beachheads allowed the Allies to pour in men and equipment.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
• Amazon.com, one of the famed brand names in technology, has begun to establish a beachhead in downtown San Jose in a move that bolsters the South Bay city’s urban heart.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 May 2017
• The Germans hadn’t counted on the Italians to fight and were not deterred, hammering the American beachhead at Paestum.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
• His father, with whom Laurel has had a distant and strained relationship, fled to the U.S. in the hopes of establishing a beachhead for the family.
  — Arpita Aneja, Time, 20 June 2017
• If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• In the event, although some troops did manage to advance inland, the Allies had only secured four isolated beachheads, each surrounded by German positions.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024