How to Use foxhole in a Sentence

foxhole

noun
  • People think they’ll be handed a gun, sent to the desert and plopped in a foxhole.
    Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
  • Here's a middle 30s-year-old man jumping in and out of foxholes.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
  • My leadership style has always put me squarely in the foxhole with the rest of my team.
    Chris Paquette, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • There are plentiful reasons right now to come to NR’s aid, to join it in the foxhole and the cockpit, to stand with it on the ramparts and at the deck guns.
    Jack Fowler, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Think of it as scientific proof of the old saying that there are no atheists in the foxhole.
    Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • It is decorated with a scene of two soldiers in a foxhole in wartime.
    Anne McCollam, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Like someone once said, there are no atheists in foxholes.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • During a final, bloody Japanese charge, Ralph was hit by a shell and blown 20 feel out of his foxhole.
    Jessica Stahl, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Not bad for a four-pound Yorkshire terrier found alone in a jungle foxhole in 1944.
    Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • Outnumbered by more than 3-to-1, many of the Americans died in their foxholes.
    Chris Carola, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
  • A few feet away, a soldier stood in a foxhole on the Ukrainian bank of the river, staring at Moscow’s close ally across the water.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • There is no bigger experience than being in the foxhole, in the huddles, and out on the floor—being a part of the game plan and being game-planned against.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
  • The upsets, the foxhole triumph and the chance at an opportunity of a lifetime.
    Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The character also nods to the wartime idea of hunkering in a foxhole, as more people stay home and brace themselves for change.
    Anna Perling, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The foxhole wasn’t deep—barely big enough to provide cover for a crouching soldier.
    Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • James said of Green after spending, at 33, not a competitive second in the foxhole in Game 7.
    New York Times, 28 May 2018
  • An artillery shell landed in his foxhole and he was killed instantly.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 4 June 2018
  • Just as there are no atheists in a foxhole, there are no college rivalries in the midst of a pandemic season.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
  • There were a number of reasons why the instant foxhole concept endured.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2022
  • One depicts two Korean War soldiers on watch in a frozen foxhole.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The nurse and the foxhole saved her life when a German pilot, pursued by British fighter planes, unleashed five antipersonnel bombs.
    Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Monsoon rains turned Okinawa into a morass of ankle-deep mud, and foxholes and trenches were filled with water.
    oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
  • After helping some of them dig in along a big field, racing against the clock to firm up their defenses, Stampes jumped into a foxhole as the Germans were less than an hour out.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But Chickie is obstinate in his cockeyed optimism, even when he’s being shot at in a foxhole with no weapon.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the spaces are as tiny as a closet, walls made of mud or rock, basically menstruation foxholes.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The film is mostly a lighthearted adventure until Chickie visits Rick, has to run for his life during an ambush and spends the night in a foxhole.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The Ukrainians have been using consumer quadcopters to drop grenades since the start of the conflict, and operators are now skilled enough to drop bombs into trenches and foxholes and through open tank hatches.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There’s no evidence this explosive foxhole digger was ever issued to the U.S. Army or Marines.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2022

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