pregnable
Example Sentences
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This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or would the 50-odd Allied divisions still in Britain mount an entirely new thrust at the demonstrably pregnable Atlantic Wall?
From Time Magazine Archive
He had committed to memory the smallest details, the ammunition supplies of each fort, the number of guns, the garrison, the pregnable and impregnable sides.
From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath
The Duc de Crillon is sanguine; he told me, that in his opinion, Gibraltar was far more pregnable than Mahon.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Jared Sparks
The newcomer's reserve was indeed pregnable to no assault I could devise.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
