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- noun Plural form of
foxhole .
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Examples
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We were put in foxholes three abreast and told to shoot, full auto.
Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009
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We were put in foxholes three abreast and told to shoot, full auto.
Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009
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He spent the next couple of weeks hiding in foxholes during the day and moving about at night.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Those long-ago photographers were on the front lines too, in foxholes shivering with their buddies.
May 2008 2008
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Those long-ago photographers were on the front lines too, in foxholes shivering with their buddies.
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If there are no atheists in foxholes, perhaps there are agnostics amid bank runs.
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The old saying is right, "There are not athiest in foxholes".
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If Karl Rove is right, only conservatives are fighting this war -- there are no liberals in foxholes -- and they don't listen to us.
June 2005 2005
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The pump lies under the very guns of the marines, hunkered down in foxholes behind a high sand wall, scanning the landscape for signs of the elusive, intangible, incomprehensible enemy.
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Upon receipt of an air attack warning, the guards would leave their posts and take cover in foxholes surrounding their quarters.
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