How To Use Pitched battle In A Sentence
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Police fought a pitched battle against demonstrators.
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Iraqi and U.S. forces in that pitched battle with the so-called diehard End of Days cult.
CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007
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The Romans could win almost every pitched battle they fought -- when the tribesmen held still for a pitched battle.
STONE CITY
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The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
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The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police.
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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
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But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily armed, well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon.
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Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
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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
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There was a pitched battle here a few hours ago, but soldiers are nowhere in sight now.
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The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police.
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It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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guerrillas unequipped for a pitched battle
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Outside a pitched battle was taking place.
Times, Sunday Times
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With all this firepower, a spat between clans often turns into a pitched battle.
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Recently there has been a rise in the number of attacks on US military targets and the first pitched battle between reconstituted former Taliban and American forces.
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Hippolyta leads the Amazons in pitched battle against giant sea beasts of the past raised by Euphemis while Diana recuperates, only to watch in horror as WW returns to do the unthinkable — TWICE!
27 « June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
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There sieges were less frequent and pitched battles more important.
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After wrecking machinery and burning down mills across Lancashire, the rampaging mobs were only finally brought to heel after fighting pitched battles with the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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The success of one pitched battle will determine which is to be the general, which the sub-altern, for the rest of the campaign.
Sir Charles Grandison
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This brought forth the wrath of the strict Sunday observers, and pitched battles, using potatoes, turnips and bottles, were fought between deckhands and smartly - but soberly - dressed sabbatarians.
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This is not a pitched battle for the future of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Milder forms of antagonism consist in sending the immigrant workers "to Coventry," using contemptuous language of or to them, as we hear every day in "dago" or "sheeny," and in objections by the elders to the young people associating together, while the shameful use that is continually made of the immigrants as strike-breakers may rouse such mutual indignation that there are riots and pitched battles as a consequence.
The Trade Union Woman
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Whether for small colonial wars or large pitched battles, the machinegun was a game changer.
Times, Sunday Times
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After wrecking machinery and burning down mills across Lancashire, the rampaging mobs were only finally brought to heel after fighting pitched battles with the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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They said that the number of reserve forces should be doubled and that they should use heavy weaponry'to fight pitched battles '.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the popular press, Cohen notes, seaside towns were being destroyed by warring gangs, with property getting trashed willy-nilly and pitched battles being fought in the street.
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His robots fight among themselves most realistically, and his crowning achievement is a pitched battle on an underground road, believable enough to induce cringes and curled fists.
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Whether for small colonial wars or large pitched battles, the machinegun was a game changer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had expected rage, flying pupusas, a pitched battle.
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He stepped off the high-heeled cothurnus, and came down into common life; he held out his great hearty arms, and embraced us all; he had a bow for all women; a kiss for all children; a shake of the hand for all men, high or low; he showed us Heavens sun shining every day on quiet homes; not gilded palace roofs only, or court processions, or heroic warriors fighting for princesses and pitched battles.
On Charity and Humor
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Conservationists fought a pitched battle with developers over the future of the site.
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In what was initially a pitched battle between two meaty packs, the smallest man on the pitch stood out a mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Though relations between his camp and that of his brother, David, in pitched battle with each other, had become increasingly tense, the younger Miliband rang the former work and pensions secretary James Purnell – a friend, yes, but much closer to David than to him – to ask him for advice.
Ed Miliband leadership: 'Red Ed' yearns to put forward his centrist vision
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A teenager and a seven-year-old boy were injured as 50 men armed with sticks, bottles and baseball bats fought a pitched battle in a Bolton street.
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He describes how he killed two young workers taken prisoner in a pitched battle inside a factory workshop.
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Telfer's accounts of this and other pitched battles with ‘myalls’ might be dismissed by the sceptic as unsupported hearsay.
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She wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
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He describes how he killed two young workers taken prisoner in a pitched battle inside a factory workshop.
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He does not take us into the councils of demons and angels, he provides no descriptions of pitched battles between opposing hosts.
Christianity Today
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There are few archers or hand gunners who can stand against decent combat troops in a pitched battle.
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The tension between these two men turned the last stretch of the quest for the longitude prize into a pitched battle.
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After wrecking machinery and burning down mills across Lancashire, the rampaging mobs were only finally brought to heel after fighting pitched battles with the army.
Times, Sunday Times
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For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
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He does not take us into the councils of demons and angels, he provides no descriptions of pitched battles between opposing hosts.
Christianity Today
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There are few archers or hand gunners who can stand against decent combat troops in a pitched battle.
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The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
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At the time he raided the steamship companies, they had yapped at him and worried him, the whole pack of them, only to have him whirl around and whip them in the fiercest pitched battle San Francisco had ever known.
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