ambush

Here, though, it suffered a second ambush before eventually being able to reunite with the convoy.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

Czesław is an ethnic Pole in the Red Army who escaped a ruthless German ambush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

But Aoun described it as a deliberate ambush set for Lebanon and its army, designed to draw the Israeli military into another incursion.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Neither one of us said much of anything as we walked home in trepidation, certain that Assef and his friends would ambush us every time we turned a corner.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

AFP spoke to his former business partner, ex-major Omar Rodriguez, who said that after a few desert ambushes last year, Quijano "paused" the operation.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Yet so much can derail them: fractured supply chains, staff blowups, quirks of locations and traffic, social media ambushes, even the unexpected, like COVID.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

"He was very good at setting up ambushes," one of Makenga's fellow RPF fighters told the Rift Valley Institute non-profit research organisation.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

And as climate change supercharges more storms, fires, earthquakes, and other inevitable tragedies throughout this year and beyond, prepare to have to deal with these ambushes as well.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025

It meant hearing his loud complaints about her mother’s culinary ambushes: chicken bloody at the bone, undercooked vegetables, unpeeled fruit served with room-temperature cream cheese.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Two batters later, Hernández ambushed a first-pitch slider.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

But he said disabled court users shouldn't be "ambushed by inaccessibility" and "have to undergo a resilience test" in going to court.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Braddock’s column was ambushed by French and Native American forces at the Battle of the Monongahela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

“Flying through blizzard conditions, his squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Then he’d taken cover behind an ice sculpture and focused on the miserable task of regurgitating the packets of Wylan’s root bombs he’d swallowed before they’d ambushed the prison wagon.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

Then Betts came to the plate and continued his recent — and long-awaited — turnaround offensively, ambushing a first-pitch slider for his first home run since July 5.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2025

Signs of desperate hunger are growing as people resort to consuming animal feed or ambushing aid trucks.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

After ambushing Guevara's guerrilla group Gen Prado was made a national hero for having defended the Bolivian military regime.

From BBC ● May 7, 2023

He pulled pranks like putting ketchup on people’s faces while they slept, or ambushing them with water balloons when they’d just woken up.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater