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Example sentences for "take cover"

  • We only just had time to take cover in a sangar as they opened fire from the opposite hill.

  • Then another and another came, and we got the order to take cover to our right, which was promptly obeyed.

  • Then we take cover, if not bowled over; and it is generally known that there are Boers about.

  • At one moment, seeing a volley from the enemy was imminent, the order was given by one of the officers to his men to take cover.

  • The men in charge of the Maxim by mistake took this order as applying to them and left the Maxim, in order to take cover as directed; in an instant the rebels saw their chance, and made a rush to get the gun.

  • In consequence, during a bombardment men would crowd into them to take cover, and should a trench-mortar bomb then strike one of them, it was blown in and all its occupants were killed.

  • The outlook was hopeless, the wire was an insurmountable obstacle, and the few who remained had to take cover in the nearest shell-hole until darkness allowed us to make our own lines again--a sad dejected remnant of a company.

  • The result was that the enemy had little inducement to take cover.

  • The drivers finally managed to close the wagon doors and get most of them back over the bridge, but the shell fire had then become so heavy that "Take cover!

  • Instant orders were given us to take cover as a strafing was in sight, and we shot out of the gun pit, jumped into the trench and ran along.

  • Only Doe, too proud to take cover, remained standing, and then blushed self-consciously lest he had appeared to be posing.

  • By the time the nutcrackers were busy, the more riotous subalterns had reached that state of merriness, in which they found every distant pop of a cork the excuse for a fresh cheer and cries of "Take cover!

  • At the warning to take cover, they separated and dived for the bushes on either side.

  • As soon as the first shell landed near us, the officer in charge shouted nonchalantly, "Take cover, everybody.

  • I jumped to a small depression, and yelled to the men to take cover.

  • From the trench we had occupied we could see the men lying just as they had fallen, while trying to take cover.

  • Snipers’ bullets were whizzing all around me, and often I had to take cover by lying alongside a dead comrade.

  • The Major ran up to me and shouted that I had been seen, and told me to take cover at once.

  • Within a hundred yards of the ruined town, from the shelter of a wrecked barn came the voice of a Belgian soldier peremptorily ordering me to take cover.

  • I yelled out to my man to take cover, and crushed into the entrance of a dug-out myself.

  • Whether they were splinters from the bursting shells or bullets from machine guns I could not tell, but it got so hot at last that I judged it wise to take cover.

  • He won't take cover either; he can't, I suppose, while the Captain struts about enjoying himself.

  • The men stood up cheering like madmen; but firing started again from the bushes, bullets came whistling over, and they were ordered to take cover.

  • If there should be a nuclear flash--especially if you are outdoors and feel warmth at the same time--take cover instantly in the best place you can find.

  • If there should be a nuclear flash--especially if you feel the warmth from it--take cover instantly, and then move to a fallout shelter later.

  • Do not remain in a trailer or mobile home if a tornado is approaching; take cover elsewhere.

  • As a last resort, take cover in the best available place.

  • Here we take cover on a steep slope covered with wild vegetation, extending alongside the orchard which I had seen that morning.

  • No one has ever seen him voluntarily take cover.

  • I take cover behind a tree, sitting down and leaning against it.

  • Jake heard suddenly the long, insistent scream of a whistle, looked round and saw an officer signalling to take cover.

  • I shouted to the men to take cover in the tanks, since inside or under a tank is a place of comparative safety.

  • There is nothing more difficult, and at the same time more easy, than to take cover until a "strafe" stops.

  • We were discussing its fate when a large German aeroplane swooped down and drove us to take cover.

  • It was Nature's signal to the wary to take cover.

  • Then in open order the blacks hurried forward to take cover.

  • Bolting they were followed by galling volleys until the resumption of the deadly machine-fire compelled the defenders to take cover.

  • We caught sight of a mass of Germans swarming up a slope on the right, to take cover in a wood there; but they didn't know what we knew.

  • Other survivors had been ordered to take cover, and it was no pleasant experience to crawl like snakes, as we did, through a very muddy mangold-wurzel field, especially when you have only shirt and trousers on.

  • The British had no time to take cover; they seized their rifles, flung themselves off their horses, and, lying prone on the ground, opened a brisk fire.

  • Our soldiers, who had learned to take cover in South Africa, lay close, and waited, whiling away the time by joking and by playing marbles with the shrapnel bullets that fell among them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take cover" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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