defensive fire in a sentence

Examples

1. After 8 hours of combat, 2, 000 rounds of defensive fire and 15 miles of movement, the Cheyenne disengaged and withdrew.
2. After locating a column of 30 to 40 vehicles they made several dive bombing attacks in the face of heavy defensive fire.
3. While Smith tied in the platoons, Kirby completed the distribution of ammunition and Stanley plotted new defensive fire tasks for the artillery.
4. The walls met at corner bastions, which are large projections designed to allow defensive fire along the faces of the walls they joined.
5. Previously each ship would have to act individually against a coordinated attack which leads to defensive fire being wasted on the same targets.
6. The three German machine-guns had fired many thousands of rounds from camouflaged positions and had been the foundation of German defensive fire power.
7. He then began the collection of wounded in the area, moving freely through the enemy defensive fire that was now beginning to fall.
8. Scimitar Hill was captured briefly but the attackers were driven off or killed by the defensive fire from the Ottomans higher up the spur.
9. The Australians then withdrew, calling in a defensive fire artillery mission onto the abandoned ambush position in order to allow them to break contact.
10. Through comparative interpretation this aspect has been connected by Dum�zil to the third or defensive fire in the theory of the three Vedic sacrificial fires.