pregnable

Example Sentences

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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

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

The newcomer's reserve was indeed pregnable to no assault I could devise.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Alloway, Mary Wilson

The words the Man had intoned had been placed in his still pregnable mind by the tele-teach phones and record that the last Master had prepared before death had halted his experiments.

From The Ultimate Experiment by DeKy, Thornton