Example sentences for: reinforcements

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

  • It’s believed that the lights held by the bishop and the women of the city fooled the British forces in the bay into assuming that Spanish reinforcements had arrived.

  • A heroic uprising in 1943, led by poorly armed Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, lasted a month until Nazi reinforcements annihilated it and reported back to Germany that “Warsaw’s Jewish quarter has ceased to exist.”

  • The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.

  • When Henry hears at Agincourt that the French have sent in reinforcements, he orders his men to kill their French prisoners--a terrifying act for men facing the prospect of imprisonment themselves.

  • The greatest danger was not that they would be left without food and reinforcements (Bulgaria and Hungary having refused to provide Russia with an air corridor into Kosovo) but that they could be subject to attacks by the Kosovo Liberation Army, which had already brought units into the Pristina suburbs.


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