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Example sentences for "counterattacked"

Lexicographically close words:
counteracted; counteracting; counteraction; counteracts; counterattack; counterattacks; counterbalance; counterbalanced; counterbalances; counterbalancing
  1. Instantly some Australian troops counterattacked and completely re-established the British positions.

  2. One French company, led by devoted officers, counterattacked there five times with the bayonet into the sweep of those bullets, and by this sacrifice saved their flank.

  3. The Austrians receiving reenforcements, violently counterattacked twice during the night, the second time succeeding in retaking part of the lost trenches.

  4. Emboldened by this success, the French on the 29th counterattacked to recover Avocourt Wood, and occupied the southeast corner, which included an important stronghold, the Avocourt Redoubt.

  5. A mass attack made by the Germans against BĂ©thincourt having failed, they counterattacked at Corbeaux Wood, during which their force was almost annihilated.

  6. On the same day the Austrians counterattacked with extreme violence at Malga Fossetta and Castel Gomberto, but were repulsed with heavy losses.

  7. Reenforcements quickly arrived, counterattacked the enemy, repulsed him with heavy losses, and captured prisoners.

  8. The detachment was at once counterattacked and driven off.

  9. The Austrians, at first surprised by the sudden onslaught, toward evening counterattacked in force, supported by an exceptionally heavy bombardment.

  10. In the upper Cordevole Valley an Austrian detachment, which attempted to penetrate one of the Italian positions in the Campo zone, was counterattacked and dispersed, abandoning some arms and munitions.

  11. Here the Bulgarians counterattacked bitterly and continuously, but apparently with no success.

  12. Shattered by Italian battery fire the Austrian masses were counterattacked and repulsed by infantry, who at several points surrounded their assailants and forced them to surrender.

  13. It was counterattacked and driven back to its point of departure, which was then carried and held by Italian troops.

  14. Dense masses of Austrians preceded by a heavy barrage fire counterattacked in an attempt to stop the Italian progress, but each time were driven back with heavy loss.

  15. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Germans, supported by an armored train, counterattacked and again occupied Kalusz.

  16. I am afraid that this may also be the reason why the Evangel effects so little amongst us, viz.

  17. To his mind, with its constitutional disability to perceive more than one thing at a time, nothing is visible but the horrors of the armed rebellion.

  18. Luther himself at a later period commends the protection and extension of the Kingdom of God most earnestly and eloquently to all rulers who followed the new faith, and instances the example of the Jewish Kings and Jewish priesthood.

  19. We learn also from the Bible, we read, that we are then truly free when the Son (of God) makes us free.

  20. On December 10 he there proceeded to burn the Bull of Excommunication amid the acclamations of his followers amongst the students, whom he had invited to the spectacle by a public notice exhibited at the University.

  21. The true dignity of the soul’s worship of God consists in the voluntary payment of homage to the highest of all beings in the natural as well as the supernatural order.

  22. It was, however, the promise he received of material help which spurred Luther on to give a social aspect to his theological movement and thus to ensure the support of the disaffected Knights and Humanists.

  23. Members of the Council had also hoped for a general improvement of morals, but had found themselves shamefully deceived.

  24. Calculation and politics thus played their part in an affair which to some extent they shaped.

  25. The German aviators counterattacked whenever they could, and more than once succeeded in crossing the French lines.

  26. Already wavering under the American fire, the Germans were counterattacked by the French colonials and driven from the town.

  27. When the French infantry counterattacked they had an easy victory over the weakened forces that had made the advance.

  28. On the Marne front an enemy battalion which had crept across to the left bank of the river above Jaulgonne was counterattacked by French and American troops and hurled back to the other bank, after having suffered heavy losses.

  29. Our local reserves at once counterattacked and succeeded in closing the gap that had been made in our line.

  30. On the 29th the French counterattacked and recovered eight square miles between Lassigny and Noyon, but west of this position the enemy, on a twelve-mile front with a penetration of seven miles, enveloped Montdidier.

  31. At the same hour we attacked and captured Les Rues des Vignes, but later in the morning the enemy counterattacked and compelled our troops to fall back from this position.

  32. On April 3 the enemy was strongly counterattacked by the British at Ayette and by the French at Plemont, near Lassigny.

  33. Assailed by seaplanes, counterattacked by Italian coast artillery, and threatened by approaching destroyers, they retired, but in the afternoon they returned and reopened fire at the mouth of the Piave.

  34. At 1500 a strong column of the enemy counterattacked the left flank of Company C, but six machine guns from Company D broke up the enemy attack.

  35. An enemy company counterattacked and hit Company A of the 88th Chemical Battalion.

  36. They then counterattacked and drove the enemy away from the area.

  37. At the same time they were heavily counterattacked by a Turkish force coming from the east.

  38. Fighting gamely against heavy odds, this Australian Brigade which had borne the brunt of the landing attack and which had been almost continually counterattacked all afternoon, gave way slowly, selling every inch of ground dearly.

  39. In midafternoon Companies E and F conducted a passage of lines, counterattacked the enemy, and withdrew after two hours.

  40. Washburn reorganized his company and counterattacked the enemy as they attempted to cross the river.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counterattacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.