NOUN
- a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place
How To Use pitched battle In A Sentence
- Police fought a pitched battle against demonstrators.
- Iraqi and U.S. forces in that pitched battle with the so-called diehard End of Days cult. CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007
- The Romans could win almost every pitched battle they fought -- when the tribesmen held still for a pitched battle. STONE CITY
- The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
- The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police.
- The Silva tribe, however, stanchly defended him, fighting more than one pitched battle for his honor, and black eyes and bloody noses became quite the order of the day and added to Maria's perplexities and troubles. Chapter 39
- But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily armed, well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon.
- Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
- Even the minor skirmishes are elusive, and the surprisingly low casualty figures for the Whites, as the anti-Bolshevik forces came to be known, suggest there were very few pitched battles: most of the devastation was wreaked on the hapless civilian populations caught in the proximity to the two armies. Deathride
- There was a pitched battle here a few hours ago, but soldiers are nowhere in sight now.