bridgehead - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • establish: At the end of the war the victorious Allies occupied parts of German, in a series of bridgeheads established on the river Rhine.
  • secure: The 29th's task was to push through them and secure a bridgehead on the north side of the canal.
  • hold: The majority dug in on the eastern bank, but Bessonov and 1st Company were ordered to hold the Bridgehead on the western bank.
  • form: This precept is one which the Essenes had adopted because they were trying to form a bridgehead for heaven on earth.
  • provide: Michael Carrithers has argued that human emotions provide a similar bridgehead.
  • attack: From here, the Regiment attacked the bridgehead at Remagen, its last offensive action of the war.

Preposition: on

  • side: The 29th's task was to push through them and secure a bridgehead on the north side of the canal.

Adjective modifier

  • small: They were to provide flank for the newly situated Assault Regiment on the Neva, counterattacking small Russian bridgeheads.
  • Russian: To the south of the city, a Russian bridgehead of equal menace had spewed forth hundreds of tanks on November 20.
  • strategic: The real reason was ' the establishment of a strategic bridgehead in the fight against al- Qaeda.
  • military: Then came the Portuguese in the 15th Century, naming the town Mogador and setting up a trading post and military bridgehead.

Modifies a noun

  • server: All the mail in one group is physically routed through the bridgehead server.

Preposition: in

  • fight: The real reason was ' the establishment of a strategic bridgehead in the fight against al- Qaeda.

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