SKIRMISH in a Sentence
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40 example sentences for SKIRMISH, such as:
1. Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border.
2. The skirmish fire increased to a long clattering sound.
3. Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were common.
4. The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.
5. The opinion of Athos was that d'Artagnan had lost his letter in the skirmish.
2. The skirmish fire increased to a long clattering sound.
3. Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were common.
4. The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.
5. The opinion of Athos was that d'Artagnan had lost his letter in the skirmish.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SKIRMISH
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skirmish
n. a minor short-term fight
v. engage in a skirmish
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 There had been reports of a slight skirmish within the Yankee lines and Mose, frantic with grief, had risked his own life to search for Ashley's body but had found nothing.
2 There'll be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.
3 Within the space of a few days the battles of Atlanta and of Ezra Church were fought, and both of them were major engagements which made Peachtree Creek seem like a skirmish.
4 Each station, each crossroad the conductor called was the name of a battle, the site of a skirmish.
5 The skirmish fire increased to a long clattering sound.
6 It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish.
7 If the people lets fall a black ball, the idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
8 The opinion of Athos was that d'Artagnan had lost his letter in the skirmish.
9 They lifted him off at the door of a cabaret, left Bazin with him, who, besides, in a skirmish was more embarrassing than useful, and set forward again in the hope of sleeping at Amiens.
10 Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.
11 There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties; the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of The Young Amelia.
12 And then there occurred the first skirmish between the new party and the old.
13 Richard looked around, and beheld the jovial Friar on his knees, telling his rosary, while his quarter-staff, which had not been idle during the skirmish, lay on the grass beside him.
14 While commanding as consul against the Samnites, Manlius was wounded in a skirmish.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
15 She and Amy had had many lively skirmishes in the course of their lives, for both had quick tempers and were apt to be violent when fairly roused.
Example Sentence:
1 Custer's troops expected they might run into a skirmish or two on maneuvers; they did not expect to face a major battle.
2 The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.
3 Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border.
4 Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were common.