Use of skirmish in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include skirmish at the start of sentence, skirmish at the end of sentence and skirmish in the middle of sentence

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skirmish at the end of sentence


  1. He was killed in a border skirmish.
  2. Everybody but Toby enters into this skirmish.
  3. They meet the enemy in a fire fight, a fair skirmish.

skirmish in the middle of sentence


  1. This skirmish sparked a major battle.
  2. The skirmish grew into a major battle.
  3. He was shot in a skirmish with the enemy.
  4. They were involved in a skirmish with rival fans.
  5. There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.
  6. Bates was sent off after a skirmish with the referee.
  7. A minor skirmish ensued as people fought over supplies.
  8. The drug war is a skirmish, the leftist gangs an irritant.
  9. They waged a battle, and we waged a skirmish, and they won.
  10. Three men died in a skirmish with armored personnel carriers.
  11. A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.
  12. My first little skirmish took place over a film, one about rape.
  13. The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.
  14. This was the first tiny skirmish in what was to be a major battle.
  15. The skirmish between the Palestine liberation organization and Israel.
  16. Government soldiers ran into a group of rebels, and a skirmish followed.
  17. He talks of regrouping like a colonel after a skirmish at Yellow Tavern.
  18. Not a bad game in the circumstances but just a preliminary skirmish in World Cup terms.
  19. He had finished fourth in the opening race after a skirmish with Aussie Anthony Gobert.
  20. He did not hesitate to skirmish with the Confederates now, for his position was a strong one.
  21. Its skirmish with the regulators, however, is just one of the Board of Trade's problems these days.
  22. Rival fans were involved in a skirmish in Kilburn High Road when windows and the interior of a pub were damaged.
  23. But what began in May 1998 as a skirmish over a remote stretch of border exposed a deep reservoir of bitterness.
  24. There was a short skirmish between the political party leaders when the government announced it was to raise taxes.
  25. In the ensuing skirmish, bullets struck Richard Baxter's door and windows until midnight when the fighting stopped.
  26. They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces, but in the circumstances that would be of little profit.

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