How to Use emplacement in a Sentence

emplacement

noun
  • And the views out of the Rock through the gun emplacements are spectacular.
    — James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But new satellite images made public this week appeared to reveal weapons emplacements for the first time.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
  • Perhaps that’s what Goddard’s emplacement is an attempt to fix.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The other exhibit is outdoors in what was once an artillery emplacement.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • Better yet, the new sculpts actually look like planet-sized gun emplacements.
    — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The next artillery emplacement in the city was inspired by one of the most obscure campaigns of the Civil War.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
  • As my 14-year-old son, Anders, scampered up a metal ladder to the gun emplacements at Ft.
    — Brian E. Clark, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • The base is built into subterranean caves, but concrete is still needed for the roofs and floors of the spacecraft hangars, and the defensive laser cannon emplacements.
    — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
  • As first reported by Marie Claire, there are enough women in this life-or-death job that there has been at least one all-female shift at one of the launch emplacements.
    — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • His troops were dug into a lacework of tunnels and gun emplacements and most had survived the pre-invasion bombing, the Courant has reported.
    — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Iger effectively resumed his duties as soon as news of his emplacement first emerged (a move that reportedly blindsided Chapek).
    — WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
  • It was abandoned in 1865, when the war ended, but the cannon emplacements are still visible today, carved into the landscape.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
  • It was abandoned in 1865, when the war ended, but the cannon emplacements are still visible today, carved into the landscape.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It was abandoned in 1865, when the war ended, but the cannon emplacements are still visible today, carved into the landscape.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Patricia Harris Patti and I walked along arched passageways and climbed to the artillery emplacement.
    — Patricia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The network will combine fighting positions, emplacements for heavy weapons such as machine guns, communications lines, storage and rest areas.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • One of the largest islands is Fiery Cross, complete with three expansive airfields, hangars for multiple fighter squadrons and several gun emplacements.
    — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
  • This quick-hardening ability allowed the French Army to build gun emplacements quickly in the first world war, and could have helped fortify rebel defenses on Hoth.
    — Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
  • On the moon, the Orientale Ring appears to be an explosive volcanic feature potentially created by a shallow emplacement of a dike.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2010
  • It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Despite suffering heavy casualties, Rai and his men eliminated all the men at each 37-millimeter gun emplacement, one of which was hidden in a nearby jungle.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • When the noncompliant enemy rallied with a counteroffensive, a bleeding Davis led a small team onward, destroying gun emplacements and earning more captives, the Army said.
    — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 June 2025
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2025
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2025
  • The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Captured from the French Army, the guns were reportedly in hardened emplacements overlooking a section of beach designated by landing forces as Omaha.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019

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