How to Use emplacement in a Sentence
emplacement
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And the views out of the Rock through the gun emplacements are spectacular.
—James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
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The next artillery emplacement in the city was inspired by one of the most obscure campaigns of the Civil War.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
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As my 14-year-old son, Anders, scampered up a metal ladder to the gun emplacements at Ft.
—Brian E. Clark, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
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As first reported by Marie Claire, there are enough women in this life-or-death job that there has been at least one all-female shift at one of the launch emplacements.
—Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
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But new satellite images made public this week appeared to reveal weapons emplacements for the first time.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
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The base is built into subterranean caves, but concrete is still needed for the roofs and floors of the spacecraft hangars, and the defensive laser cannon emplacements.
—Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
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One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement.
—Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
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The other exhibit is outdoors in what was once an artillery emplacement.
—Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
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Better yet, the new sculpts actually look like planet-sized gun emplacements.
—Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
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This quick-hardening ability allowed the French Army to build gun emplacements quickly in the first world war, and could have helped fortify rebel defenses on Hoth.
—Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
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And yet, at the end of the manicured lawn, steps lead abruptly down into the austere post-revolutionary world, with reinforced trenches and gun emplacements.
—Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
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One of the largest islands is Fiery Cross, complete with three expansive airfields, hangars for multiple fighter squadrons and several gun emplacements.
—Courtney Kube, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
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The plant is in the second phase of resuming normal operations after having slowed the emplacement of waste this spring when the pandemic began, said spokesperson Bobby St. John.
—USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2020
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Gun emplacements and reinforced concrete installations from the 20th century add to the martial architecture and make driving the cramped one-way back streets a challenge.
—James R. Carroll, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
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Iger effectively resumed his duties as soon as news of his emplacement first emerged (a move that reportedly blindsided Chapek).
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2022
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The mosque, souk and adjoining districts were transformed into World War I-style front lines, featuring trenches lined with sandbags, fortified tunnels, sniper emplacements and near-daily shelling.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
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It’s often mentioned as one of the possible causes behind this big dinosaur extinction — the plume was responsible for these huge eruptions and the emplacement of these really large volumes of igneous rocks.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
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Despite suffering heavy casualties, Rai and his men eliminated all the men at each 37-millimeter gun emplacement, one of which was hidden in a nearby jungle.
—Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
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Captured from the French Army, the guns were reportedly in hardened emplacements overlooking a section of beach designated by landing forces as Omaha.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
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When Chinese leaders gaze out toward the Pacific, their panorama is obstructed by a string of military airfields, naval anchorages, radar emplacements and listening posts sentineled by U.S. forces and their allies.
—Andrew Browne, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2017
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Then a 19-year-old private, Jackson single-handedly took out a dozen Japanese machine-gun emplacements, repeatedly risking his own life and saving his platoon from almost certain destruction.
—Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 28 July 2017
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