ambush
Example Sentences
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ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Hidden in plain sight, an ambush bug nymph waits motionless inside a flower in Michigan.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Species that feed on invertebrates, forage along the bottom, or rely on ambush strategies to catch prey also showed higher rates of contamination compared with other fish.
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026
The action was part of “Hawkeye Strike,” a U.S.-led operation directed by President Trump in response to the killing of two Iowa National Guard soldiers in a mid-December ambush.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
I would simply have to ambush it with whatever sense I had left, or it would trap me in its stupid cage for fifty years without any sense at all.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing ambush
Animal Farm
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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