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
• Both activists believe the land Energen owns in the Permian basin would draw oil-and-gas producers looking to expand in the area and those who need a beachhead to enter it.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• The malicious image in this scenario will establish a permanent beachhead on the device that’s installed prior to the loading of the OS and any security software that would normally flag infections.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024