The Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : The smaller nations were facing a financial Dunkirk.    From Dictionary.com. 

Dunkirk - For the second time in just more than a month, authorities put an end to a cockfighting ring in Dunkirk on Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Journal] Reference

‡ The term Dunkirk is sometimes used to signify a desperate retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dunkirk] Reference

It may well be called the Dunkirk of the Western world.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and English A Story of the Struggle in America] Reference

And that one PIREP was located near Dunkirk, which is well south of Buffalo, and it was for severe ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2009] Reference

Well, got my posting: Some place called Dunkirk, plenty of Vino and girls (so I've heard), nothing much going on there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

The tactic is to replicate David Stockman's chicken-little "Dunkirk" memo to president-elect Ronald Reagan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Green: 7 Days: Is The Election Over, Economically Speaking? w/ Bernstein, Huffington, Reagan & Green] Reference

They go hellbent for three weeks and 2,159 miles, passing places such as Dunkirk and Verdun, on paths previously worn by tourists and.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Imagine if Lance were a quarterback] Reference

Because the above really and very truthfully ids the only logical explanation that fits recorded events, such as Dunkirk for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s not the jokes, it’s how you tell 'em] Reference

I had it in Dunkirk with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinner in Honour of The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario The Honourable Pauline McGibbon] Reference

Historian organises 'Dunkirk' flotilla to evacuate stranded Britons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The first cause for concern was something called the 'Dunkirk' Circus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professor Strange] Reference

He declares that Howe, captain of the "Dunkirk," replied in French: "La paix, la paix.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Montcalm and Wolfe] Reference

The judging panel (which didn't include myself, thankfully) picked a winner and that is the excellent 'Dunkirk' by Team TTV.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

I don't mind telling you that the 'Dunkirk' spirit was converted into another spirit and imbibed by the pint to calm the old nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

The One Eyed Porridge Wog can't really play the 'Dunkirk' card with P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

Learning that his majesty was at Dunkirk in the May of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

Dunkirk and Erie, and a rough way it was in those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

The soil in which they grow is varied: Dunkirk fine sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

The day we went to Dunkirk we saw a lot of armoured cars.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference

Allies 'lines in an attempt to break through to Dunkirk and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

Dunkirk silt loam, Ontario fine sand loam, and Ontario loam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

Three of us went to Dunkirk by motor to get various supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference

British troops from Calais, Dunkirk, and Boulogne into Belgium in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

From Dunkirk Tom went back over the route he had taken in going from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

Nancy, Dunkirk, and Manchester, all of them without a single accident!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference

War had been declared with England, and in Antwerp, in Dunkirk, on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

After Robbie gets out of jail, he finds himself in the Army at Dunkirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luminous Novel From Dark Master] Reference

Dunkirk to cross under cover of Roquefeuil's fleet naturally did not start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

My orders came to-day, and I leave on Tuesday for Paris and on Friday for Dunkirk.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference

Dunkirk loam, Dunkirk sandy loam, Dunkirk silt loam, Clyde sandy loam and clay loam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

The happy couple set out at once for Dunkirk, the residence of the bridegroom's parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

Dunkirk, would by no means march along our frontier to Longwy in order to reach Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

The town of Dunkirk has honoured his memory by a statue and by naming a public square after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

We are nearly eaten up with the mosquitoes so I have been to Dunkirk to get some mosquito netting.    From Wordnik.com.  ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference

Spottsylvania Court House on my return, and thence via Bowling Green and Dunkirk to the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The deepest coal mines in England are the Dunkirk colleries of Lancashire, which are 2,824 feet in depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

They reached Dunkirk without further incident, except that about a mile from it the motor developed some trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference