Get to know Ardennes better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like tableland or plateau.
Ardennes meaning
- A placename:
- forest, geographic region and low mountain range in France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg; in full, Ardennes Forest, Ardenne Forest, or Forest of Ardennes.
Using Ardennes
- The main meaning on this page is: A placename: | forest, geographic region and low mountain range in France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg; in full, Ardennes Forest, Ardenne Forest, or Forest of Ardennes. | A placename:
- Useful related words include: tableland, plateau.
- In the example corpus, ardennes often appears in combinations such as: the ardennes, ardennes offensive, ardennes forest.
Context around Ardennes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ardennes
- In this selection, "ardennes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, des, flemish, populated, offensive, forest and battle stand out and add context to how "ardennes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bataille des ardennes battle of and because the ardennes was considered. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ardennes" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ardennes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Heavy snowstorms engulfed parts of the Ardennes area. (8 words)
Another work by Keitel later published in English was Questionnaire on the Ardennes offensive. (14 words)
Commonly known as the Oesling, the Ardennes region covers convert, about 32% of the entire country. (16 words)
The rapid Allied advance from Normandy had finally stalled in the Belgian Ardennes due to heavy German resistance and, while the south of Limburg had been liberated, the weather clearly played a huge part in what was to come. (39 words)
The Germans referred to it officially as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine") or usually Ardennenoffensive or Rundstedt-Offensive, while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). (35 words)
Because the Ardennes was considered a quiet sector, economy-of-force considerations led it to be used as a training ground for new units and a rest area for units that had seen hard fighting. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Germans referred to it officially as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine") or usually Ardennenoffensive or Rundstedt-Offensive, while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes").
The 265 kilometer route consists of numerous short, steep climbs up the iconic cobblestone streets of the Flemish Ardennes.
The sequel came out in 2013 and added the Red Army as a faction, as well as two expansions, including the Ardennes Offensive.
This significant German offensive took place on the Western Front in the Ardennes Forest (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany).
The Ardennes offensive had not succeeded in its strategic objective, but it had upset the Allied schedule and delayed their advance into the heart of Germany.
The plan was to unleash a blitzkrieg by massed panzer divisions through the Ardennes forest, weakly defended by green or exhausted American troops.
Winds were expected to strengthen to 120 km/h overnight Sunday, with Brittany, Normandy, the Ardennes and Lorraine bearing the brunt of the storm.
Another brutal assault of prisoners' human rights took place in Ardennes at the Battle of the Bulge.
Go underground in the limestone caves of the Ardennes: stalactites and stalagmites galore, as well as boat-trips on subterranean rivers.
Still, Hitler believed Germany could turn the tide, and centered on regaining the northern Belgian port of Antwerp with a push through the sparsely populated Ardennes.
The rapid Allied advance from Normandy had finally stalled in the Belgian Ardennes due to heavy German resistance and, while the south of Limburg had been liberated, the weather clearly played a huge part in what was to come.
Another work by Keitel later published in English was Questionnaire on the Ardennes offensive.
Because the Ardennes was considered a quiet sector, economy-of-force considerations led it to be used as a training ground for new units and a rest area for units that had seen hard fighting.
Biography Born at Rumigny (in present-day Ardennes ), he attended school in Mantes-sur-Seine (now Mantes-la-Jolie ).
Commonly known as the Oesling, the Ardennes region covers convert, about 32% of the entire country.
During the Ardennes Offensive ( Battle of the Bulge ) German troops took back most of northern Luxembourg for a few weeks.
Heavy snowstorms engulfed parts of the Ardennes area.
However, precisely because the French thought the Ardennes unsuitable for massive troop movement, particularly for tanks, they were left with only light defences which were quickly overrun by the Wehrmacht.
In 1940 German forces had passed through the Ardennes in three days before engaging the enemy, but the 1944 plan called for battle in the forest itself.
On 7 January 1945 Hitler agreed to withdraw all forces from the Ardennes, including the SS-Panzerdivisionen, thus ending all offensive operations.
Common combinations with ardennes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: