How to Use emplacement in a Sentence

emplacement

noun

• And the views out of the Rock through the gun emplacements are spectacular.
  — James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The next artillery emplacement in the city was inspired by one of the most obscure campaigns of the Civil War.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• As my 14-year-old son, Anders, scampered up a metal ladder to the gun emplacements at Ft.
  — Brian E. Clark, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• As first reported by Marie Claire, there are enough women in this life-or-death job that there has been at least one all-female shift at one of the launch emplacements.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
• But new satellite images made public this week appeared to reveal weapons emplacements for the first time.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
• The base is built into subterranean caves, but concrete is still needed for the roofs and floors of the spacecraft hangars, and the defensive laser cannon emplacements.
  — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
• One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• The other exhibit is outdoors in what was once an artillery emplacement.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• Better yet, the new sculpts actually look like planet-sized gun emplacements.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
• This quick-hardening ability allowed the French Army to build gun emplacements quickly in the first world war, and could have helped fortify rebel defenses on Hoth.
  — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
• And yet, at the end of the manicured lawn, steps lead abruptly down into the austere post-revolutionary world, with reinforced trenches and gun emplacements.
  — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• One of the largest islands is Fiery Cross, complete with three expansive airfields, hangars for multiple fighter squadrons and several gun emplacements.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• The plant is in the second phase of resuming normal operations after having slowed the emplacement of waste this spring when the pandemic began, said spokesperson Bobby St. John.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2020
• Gun emplacements and reinforced concrete installations from the 20th century add to the martial architecture and make driving the cramped one-way back streets a challenge.
  — James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Iger effectively resumed his duties as soon as news of his emplacement first emerged (a move that reportedly blindsided Chapek).
  — WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
• The mosque, souk and adjoining districts were transformed into World War I-style front lines, featuring trenches lined with sandbags, fortified tunnels, sniper emplacements and near-daily shelling.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• Despite suffering heavy casualties, Rai and his men eliminated all the men at each 37-millimeter gun emplacement, one of which was hidden in a nearby jungle.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
• When the noncompliant enemy rallied with a counteroffensive, a bleeding Davis led a small team onward, destroying gun emplacements and earning more captives, the Army said.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Captured from the French Army, the guns were reportedly in hardened emplacements overlooking a section of beach designated by landing forces as Omaha.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
• When Chinese leaders gaze out toward the Pacific, their panorama is obstructed by a string of military airfields, naval anchorages, radar emplacements and listening posts sentineled by U.S. forces and their allies.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2017
• Then a 19-year-old private, Jackson single-handedly took out a dozen Japanese machine-gun emplacements, repeatedly risking his own life and saving his platoon from almost certain destruction.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 28 July 2017

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024