BATTLE in a Sentence

Learn BATTLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
327 example sentences for BATTLE, such as:
1. The battle is to the strong.
2. His arm was shot off in a battle.
3. The first blow is half the battle.
4. A good beginning is half the battle.
5. Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BATTLE
battle
 v.  battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
 n.  an energetic attempt to achieve something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She entered puffing, with the expression of one who expects battle and welcomes it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  The unfortunate boy had not only been cheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Far from the battle lines, the town and its railroads provided the connecting link between the two armies of the Confederacy, the army in Virginia and the army in Tennessee and the West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Almost the pulsing of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  He didn't even die in a fine glow of gallantry in battle, so she could brag about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Nor could she borrow a dress, for the satin wedding dresses of years past had all gone into the making of battle flags.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  There had been hard fighting in Pennsylvania, near a little town named Gettysburg, a great battle with all Lee's army massed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  The news was uncertain, slow in coming, for the battle had been fought in the enemy's territory and the reports came first through Maryland, were relayed to Richmond and then to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  They were thinking of Lee in Pennsylvania, forcing battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up and down the quiet streets like darting bats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  There was hardly a house in town that had not sent away a son, a brother, a father, a lover, a husband, to this battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Scarlett, General Lee must have lost the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  Evidently she had not thought that the battle might still be going on and Ashley perhaps dead at this very moment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  Over the railroads that led down from Virginia to Atlanta and then northward to Tennessee, General Longstreet's corps had been rushed to the scene of the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  They had come without food or sleep, without their horses, ambulances or supply trains and, without waiting for the rest, they had leaped from the trains and into the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  We have no contemporary account of the battle.
2  The administration hopes to avoid another bruising battle over civil rights.
3  Learning to read as an adult is tough work, but you can win this battle if you try.
4  The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
5  His arm was shot off in a battle.
6  There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
7  A good mystery story is a battle of wits between author and reader.
8  A good beginning is half the battle.
9  In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
10  The battle is to the strong.
11  First impressions are half the battle.
12  The first blow is half the battle.
13  Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
14  One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
15  They became pawns in the political battle.