How to Use foxhole in a Sentence

foxhole

noun
  • One of the words that comes up more than once in the book is trinchera, or foxhole.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
  • If the fox reaches the foxhole first, though, the players lose!
    — Keith Law, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
  • People think they’ll be handed a gun, sent to the desert and plopped in a foxhole.
    — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Add a mug of hot coffee to take the chill off from sitting in a cold foxhole all night.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
  • This woman got down in that foxhole with me and turned this into something.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Here's a middle 30s-year-old man jumping in and out of foxholes.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
  • There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
    — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • It is decorated with a scene of two soldiers in a foxhole in wartime.
    — Anne McCollam, Houston Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
  • My leadership style has always put me squarely in the foxhole with the rest of my team.
    — Chris Paquette, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • An artillery shell landed in his foxhole and he was killed instantly.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 4 June 2018
  • Think of it as scientific proof of the old saying that there are no atheists in the foxhole.
    — Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Some left their foxholes to shmooze, sing carols and exchange cigarettes.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The foxhole wasn’t deep—barely big enough to provide cover for a crouching soldier.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • There were a number of reasons why the instant foxhole concept endured.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Some of them wear face paint, camouflage uniforms, and ghillie suits — ducking in and out of foxholes cut into the ground.
    — Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • It was designed for foxholes and aircraft carriers.
    — Allison Palmer march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • One depicts two Korean War soldiers on watch in a frozen foxhole.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Just as there are no atheists in a foxhole, there are no college rivalries in the midst of a pandemic season.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2021
  • In times of high tension, shells fly and residents hunker in fortified foxholes.
    — Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • This can be expanded into a foxhole, a one-person fighting position deep enough to stand up in.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Graves recalls sitting in a foxhole and suddenly wanting some hot chocolate.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The character also nods to the wartime idea of hunkering in a foxhole, as more people stay home and brace themselves for change.
    — Anna Perling, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The upsets, the foxhole triumph and the chance at an opportunity of a lifetime.
    — Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Outnumbered by more than 3-to-1, many of the Americans died in their foxholes.
    — Chris Carola, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
  • Some of the spaces are as tiny as a closet, walls made of mud or rock, basically menstruation foxholes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the spaces are as tiny as a closet, walls made of mud or rock, basically menstruation foxholes.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • But Chickie is obstinate in his cockeyed optimism, even when he’s being shot at in a foxhole with no weapon.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022

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