Explore Foxhole through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bunker or dugout. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Foxhole meaning
- The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
- A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
Using Foxhole
- The main meaning on this page is: The burrow in the ground where a fox lives. | A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
- Useful related words include: fox hole, bunker, dugout.
- In the example corpus, foxhole often appears in combinations such as: the foxhole, in foxhole, foxhole with.
Context around Foxhole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foxhole
- In this selection, "foxhole" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, last, brick, digging, mates and bar stand out and add context to how "foxhole" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and his foxhole mates figured and at the foxhole bar banquet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foxhole" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foxhole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s definitely no foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle! (9 words)
Two U.S. Marines share a foxhole with an Okinawan war orphan in April 1945. (15 words)
So they were in a foxhole digging through dead bodies trying to find ammo,” Larry Wood said. (17 words)
She uses her suit’s ability to disengage from gravity to avoid some bazooka fire, and upon returning to the foxhole that fired on her, she finds the soldiers in it all knocked out, as if someone is secretly helping her. (41 words)
Tough as Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks Univ. of Wisconsin Press. p. 34 A detailed account of adapting The Brick Foxhole for the screen and the producers' battles with the censors is in James Naremore (1998). (39 words)
The South Australian Health Department () has, after more than three years of alarmism and public health messaging, abandoned its last foxhole and announced that its Covid vaccination mandate for ‘medical staff with patient-facing roles’ is no more. (38 words)
It’s definitely no foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle! (9 words)
Example sentences (11)
So they were in a foxhole digging through dead bodies trying to find ammo,” Larry Wood said.
The South Australian Health Department () has, after more than three years of alarmism and public health messaging, abandoned its last foxhole and announced that its Covid vaccination mandate for ‘medical staff with patient-facing roles’ is no more.
You want to be in a foxhole with Biden only if you are certain that the members of ‘the squad,’ the left-wing faction in the House, approve of his being there.
It’s definitely no foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle!
Sergeant Walter and his foxhole mates figured the present bombardment was just more of the same and that, for whatever reason, the Germans were getting things done a little early that morning—0530 to be exact.
Flood, however, was the first soldier out of the foxhole; a Rosa Parks-like figure in baseball who knew that though the odds were stacked against him, he was prepared to stand firm.
She uses her suit’s ability to disengage from gravity to avoid some bazooka fire, and upon returning to the foxhole that fired on her, she finds the soldiers in it all knocked out, as if someone is secretly helping her.
A Celebration of Life will be held for Jena Anderson on March 31st from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Foxhole Bar & Banquet Center in Menomonie.
Tough as Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks Univ. of Wisconsin Press. p. 34 A detailed account of adapting The Brick Foxhole for the screen and the producers' battles with the censors is in James Naremore (1998).
Two U.S. Marines share a foxhole with an Okinawan war orphan in April 1945.
Van Blair, Rick (1994) Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews with Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II.
Common combinations with foxhole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the foxhole 3×
- in foxhole 2×
- foxhole with 2×