Example sentences for: ambush

How can you use “ambush” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although not all CIA officers had lost faith in the tribals' capabilities-many judged them to be good reporters-few believed they would carry out an ambush of Bin Ladin.

  • Martí was killed in an ambush during the War of Independence, which began in 1895 and in which some 300,000 Cubans died.

  • See, e.g., CIA briefing materials, CTC UBL Update:"Must Do Some Fundamental Rethinking,"July 20, 1999 (Afghan assets are not capable of mounting a UBL capture operation or ambush); CIA briefing materials, CTC UBL Update:"Problems with Capturing UBL,"Aug.

  • During September and October, the tribals claimed to have tried at least four times to ambush Bin Ladin.

  • The CIA Develops a Capture Plan Initially, the DCI's Counterterrorist Center and its Bin Ladin unit considered a plan to ambush Bin Ladin when he traveled between Kandahar, the Taliban capital where he sometimes stayed the night, and his primary residence at the time, Tarnak Farms.


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