blockhouse
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Pte Malcolm, a stretcher bearer, was found when unidentified remains were recovered from a shell hole outside a German blockhouse in Fusilier Wood, near Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Others are posing on the porch of an officer’s house and in front of the blockhouse, which are still on the property.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
She and Bhutto bought a one-bedroom unit at City View Condos, a brick blockhouse in the tumbledown Barry Farm area of Southeast D.C.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
This blockhouse was about 15 feet square with one opening through which was poked the snout of an 88-mm. gun.
From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019
Auk XI, which had rocket candy inside that I had not moistened, leapt off the pad with a satisfying hiss, but then exploded, steel fragments whistling overhead while we hit the dirt inside the blockhouse.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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It’s a sure sign that greed, not fear, is the current phase of the arc of Mr. McWilliams’s pendulum that nobody can be sure whether these digital blockhouses will ever generate a dollar of profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Beyond the beach rise the bluffs where the Germans built their first line of defenses with trenches and blockhouses.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
We passed dilapidated blockhouses, children taking bucket baths, and old women spreading rice over tattered tarpaulins to dry.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015
Climb any hill and you may well find pillboxes, bunkers, blockhouses; stroll through any freshly plowed field and you might just spot shrapnel, cartridges and bullets atop the furrows.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
The English were busy building blockhouses from the Drakensberg to Vrede, and General Wessels was waiting for an opportunity to attack them.
From Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell