What's the difference between dugout and foxhole?

Dugout


Definition:

  • (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
  • (n.) A place dug out.
  • (n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (2) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
  • (3) But wait, there's more... Holliday, taking his time, likely thinking about what he's going to do in the dugout, then takes a turn at first base once he figures out what's happening - Ellsbury picked it up and throws to Ortiz who applies the tag and he's out!
  • (4) Giroud’s finish was even better but it was not long before the dissent could be heard around Wenger’s dugout again.
  • (5) In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse | Mary Dejevsky Read more But the men were exhausted after spending the past month in frigid dugouts with holes blown in the roofs by near-constant shelling.
  • (6) The action does not extend to dugout interviews, that's just an FYI...
  • (7) After that he slipped away to the forest where he was able to send Theoneste a note asking for cash to hire a dugout to take him across Lake Kivu to the Zairean island of Ijwe.
  • (8) Stoke's Glenn Whelan was sent off for a very silly second yellow card, Hughes found himself banished from the bench for protesting – lobbing his managerial anorak over the dugout roof in disgust en route – and Marc Wilson was also dismissed after conceding a penalty.
  • (9) While it was the epochal shift in the dugout that caught most attention at Old Trafford last summer, similarly significant change blew through the boardroom.
  • (10) Without a spectator in sight to cheer the spectacular strike, the dugout goes crazy, while her team-mates pile on top of the 25-year-old, who now plays for Albi in France’s women’s Ligue 1.
  • (11) Costa, who had made way for the youngster, was busy signing autographs and taking selfies with the supporters behind the dugout by that stage.
  • (12) Two players were then booked for taking their protests too far and Matic was swiftly followed down the tunnel by the assistant first-team coach, Silvino Louro, who was dismissed for haranguing the fourth official, while Mourinho disappeared from the dugout after the break.
  • (13) Brian McDermott did not last long in the dugout before the appointment of Dave Hockaday, who had last managed Forest Green Rovers in the Conference and was sacked by Cellino after six matches.
  • (14) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
  • (15) The crowd is relieved as the Dodgers race in to the dugout!
  • (16) Mourinho had been supported here by his family, his wife Matilde, son José Jr and daughter Matilde, who was celebrating her birthday, sitting a few rows behind the dugouts.
  • (17) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.
  • (18) Daniel Sturridge calls winner ‘a brilliant feeling’ after England beat Wales Read more “I’d have been a lot less ecstatic if we’d not conceded that late one against Russia at the weekend which robbed us of a deserved victory,” said Hodgson, whose reaction had been joyful in the dugout.
  • (19) A man down on the pitch and two down in the dugout, Chelsea faced a stern character test now, on top of their footballing trial.
  • (20) The player, who received the full backing of his club, had argued contact with Can during the Capital One Cup semi-final win over Liverpool had been purely accidental and pointed out he had not been looking at the player when he planted his right foot on his opponent’s shin in front of the dugouts.

Foxhole


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were still constructing it when I was there, so they were digging, and then sleeping at night in the back, in a foxhole, which could only fit three or four people at a time.
  • (2) We need to stop, start digging foxholes, and go on the economic offensive."
  • (3) It was read by troops in the foxholes of North Africa.
  • (4) The hazards from blast waves entering open structures are described with criteria for personnel located in a standard two-man open foxhole.
  • (5) On his first exploratory trip to Vietnam in the spring of 1967, Terry today concedes that he sensed "democracy in the foxhole - 'same mud, same blood'."
  • (6) He is not alone in sensing the "Pope Francis effect" has given many Catholics the courage to clamber out of their foxholes.
  • (7) As the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas, an opponent of Keynes, admitted in 2008: “I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole.” Having said this, Keynes’s theory of “underemployment” equilibrium is no longer accepted by most economists and policymakers.
  • (8) Is another soldier, also asleep or dead, stowed in the crypt-like foxhole behind him?