pregnable
Example Sentences
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Or would the 50-odd Allied divisions still in Britain mount an entirely new thrust at the demonstrably pregnable Atlantic Wall?
From Time Magazine Archive
This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British.
From Time Magazine Archive
She sought, feverishly, for some pregnable point of attack.
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer
It makes a breach in the blank wall, and the whole is now pregnable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various
Above this is heavy stone work over twelve inches thick, so that the sloping roof was the only part pregnable in an assault with the munitions of war then in use.
From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway
