How to Use battlefield in a Sentence
battlefield
noun- Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.
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The images show Harold leading an army as well as clad in a full suit of armor in the middle of the battlefield.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024 -
As a result, Putin would be emboldened to press for more gains on the battlefield – with a high likelihood of success.
— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024 -
World War ll, the Rosies were working hard in the factories creating parts for the battlefield.
— Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2022 -
Hämäläinen observes that Indigenous peoples could still sometimes triumph on the battlefield.
— Daniel Immerwahr, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022 -
The strikes against infrastructure have increased as Kremlin troops suffer multiple setbacks on the battlefield in the east and southeast.
— Volodymyr Verbyany, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2022 -
Russia still has hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons in its arsenal, weapons designated for battlefield use.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022 -
The plan looks beyond the immediate battlefield demands to what officials expect will emerge over the next year and into 2024.
— Lara Jakes, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022 -
The drastic escalation appeared to be prompted by the threat of more stinging battlefield defeats, sabotage and troubles with his troop mobilization.
— Hanna Arhirova, Yuras Karmanau and Sabra Ayres, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Civil War battlefields and historic sites will play a major role in this portion of the itinerary.
— Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2024 -
Now, despite setbacks on the battlefield, the state of the soup was strong.
— Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024 -
The soil of the battlefield coats their uniforms, fills their lungs, clogs their guns.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023 -
At the same time, Russia is playing the long game on the battlefield.
— Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 13 May 2024 -
Things seemed to be going so well for Vladimir Putin — at home and on the battlefield.
— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The war was won on the battlefield (and by the French navy) and Franklin’s diplomacy moved all the pieces and the peace into place.
— Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024 -
The United States has pledged to deliver 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and plans to ship them to the battlefield by the fall.
— Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023 -
At the time, Meyer wasn't hurt badly enough to leave the battlefield.
— Steve Karnowski, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023 -
Weapons experts as well have tied Houthi arms seized on the battlefield back to Iran.
— Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024 -
The true value of Soledar's capture may not be on the battlefield.
— Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023 -
The delay gave Russia time to make up ground on the battlefield.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 June 2024 -
But those tanks remain weeks or months away from the battlefield.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
— Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023 -
On the battlefield, the gunner lines up an enemy tank in his sights and then fires.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023 -
And then there is model stealing—a battlefield all of its own.
— Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023 -
Some report seeing the ghosts of soldiers on the battlefield.
— Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023 -
Speed and range will make the Army’s air assault forces more effective on the battlefield.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022 -
The Mirai group waited a couple of days to assess the battlefield.
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023 -
It has not been done in the field, in a battlefield situation.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024 -
Gun control has been loose since the 1990s Yugoslav wars, when many brought back weapons from battlefields.
— Jovana Gec, ajc, 8 May 2023 -
But, as with every war, the terms of a possible peace were defined by events on the battlefield.
— Simon Shuster/bürgenstock, TIME, 25 June 2024
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