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US
/ˈbætəɫˌfiɫd/
]
[ UK /bˈætəlfˌiːld/ ]
[ UK /bˈætəlfˌiːld/ ]
NOUN
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a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
How To Use battlefield In A Sentence
- The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield. The Guardian World News
- Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
- Aryan shrieks and runs out of my room, making such noise that her footfalls sound like an army trooping onto the battlefield.
- The commander countermanded the reinforcements to the battlefield.
- On the ‘digital’ battlefield there is a real likelihood that brigade commanders will talk directly to sergeants or corporals commanding sections and that intermediate officers will be sidelined.
- Again, here at CENTCOM, for the past few days they have been criticizing Iraqi military for what they term cowardice on the battlefield. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
- Currently the at-risk register covers a national view of archaeology, monuments, gardens, conservation areas, places of worship, wrecks and battlefields. Times, Sunday Times
- My plan is usually to remove the Helblaster from the battlefield before I advance.
- If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
- Such programs include trips to Jewish heritage sites, former battlefields, military or regimental museums, and military gravesites.