foxhole
IPA: fˈɑkshoʊɫ
noun
- The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
- (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
verb
- (transitive) To dig a military foxhole into, or convert into a foxhole by digging.
- (transitive) To drive into a military foxhole.
fox hole
IPA: fˈɑkshˈoʊɫ
noun
- Alternative spelling of foxhole [The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.]
Examples of "foxhole" in Sentences
Examples of "fox-hole" in Sentences
- Passing through the aperture, not much larger than a fox-hole, they reached the interior.
- I don't care if someone accuses me of being a fox-hole believer; that place of desperation can be a spiritual sweet spot.
- Now we come for something of consummate importance and thee, with thy dwelling place to be undisturbed, puts thy fox-hole before the interests of humanity.
- They have been in many a fox-hole in battle and now they wait again in a perilous financial fox-hole just waiting for the first salvo that will end their jobs.
- Furthermore, I would like to chat to you about atheism in a fox-hole as you are about to be bayonetted to death or as you lie dying from cancer on your death-bed.
- Right below me I saw a fox-hole, with the entrance so barricaded with sticks and stones, that I felt very sure poor Reynard must have been captured unless he dug out somewhere else.