Examples of 'bridgehead' in a sentence

Meaning of "bridgehead"

Bridgehead is a noun that describes a strong position held by one group in enemy territory, especially after an amphibious landing
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  • An area around the end of a bridge.
  • A fortification around the end of a bridge.
  • An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
  • Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms

How to use "bridgehead" in a sentence

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My goal is to organize a bridgehead from our breakthrough.
The tanks move up to secure the bridgehead.
Our bridgehead includes the territory of the prison.
The order was to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines.
A second night attack succeeded in extending the bridgehead.
They have created a bridgehead by stealth using androids.
The radio telescope is their bridgehead.
In some cases a bridgehead may exist for months.
My orders say nothing of an extended bridgehead.
The guard captured a bridgehead on the other bank.
There are steps on both sides of the bridgehead.
It was from this bridgehead that an attack.
The commando was soon ashore and in possession of a bridgehead.
The bridge and bridgehead there.
Our bridgehead in europe destroyed.

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You need to form the bridgehead before others do.
The bridgehead of a technological revolution.
You need to secure the bridgehead before others do.
A national bridgehead organisation was also set up to coordinate the SCs.
And secured the vital bridgehead.
This would be a bridgehead for efforts to guarantee freedom of expression.
You are in charge of the bridgehead.
So we have a bridgehead to the coast.
The bridgehead labelled iodine compounds were found to be very stable.
The attempt was to establish a bridgehead and capture the airfield.
No attempt was made to establish a bridgehead.
This research is an important bridgehead for the scientific community.
Cavalry quickly crossed it followed by infantry to hold the bridgehead.
Search for a bridgehead among the fundamentals we should go back to.
The group captured a bridgehead.
Mulder as the bridgehead of the greatest international traffic in these substances.
See you at the bridgehead.
The bridgehead battle had been extremely costly for the division.
It succeeded in gaining and sustaining a bridgehead for five months.
The bridgehead is quiet.
I think they are establishing a bridgehead.
Australia has become the bridgehead between east and west.
It was a rectangular parallelepipedal building in the protection of the high bridgehead.
Heterocyclyl groups can also include bridgehead heterocycloalkyl groups.
He immediately set about reorganising the positions on the bridgehead.
He also claimed that it served as a bridgehead for any northward invasion.
The main forces of the division are read to land on the seized bridgehead.
The bond joins the four bridgehead atoms in a tetrahedral geometry.
There is not much of a bridgehead.
Atranes are comprised of two bridgehead atoms bridged by three atom moieties.
I am here to hold the bridgehead.
In addition it provided a bridgehead from which attacks could be made in the future.
This sequence leads to bicyclic cyclobutanones bearing a methyl substituent in bridgehead position.
France used this bridgehead to fulfil its wider ambitions a decade later.
Was a western bridgehead.

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