beachhead

• I generally dive with my flight almost to ground level and then fly off in a low-level flight out to sea near the beachhead, or over the marshland further north where the defense is weaker. —  THE BANTAM WAR BOOK SERIES
• That they would be kept behind to defend their rear from the Muslims still in the Malay Peninsula; that they would be boarded on ships in the mouth of the sacred Ganges and deposited on the Arabian coast to attack Mecca itself; that they were destined for a beachhead attack on the peninsulas of northwest Firanja; and so on. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• If you had pressed into Korlis, if your creations had secured us a beachhead, then the war chiefs would be lining up to tell me how they knew you could do it all along. —  JEFF GRUBB
• The snapping of small tree trunks sounded across the battlefield as the crustaceans cleared a beachhead, their pincers shredding those obstacles they could not simply uproot by sheer strength The dragon blinked at the sudden activity, frozen in surprise. —  VANCE MOORE
• ;They've been engineering the whole decline of the plane, preparing it as a beachhead for their invasion of Dominaria. —  J

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