pitched battle in English
The ‘victories’ of the Alliance, in north and south, follow rounds of skirmishing and negotiating rather than pitched battles .
Use "pitched battle" in a sentence
1. Police fought a pitched battle against demonstrators.
2. The scene was all set for a pitched battle.
3. I had expected rage, flying pupusas, a pitched battle.
4. Thirty students were injured in a pitched battle with police.
5. The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police.
6. She wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
7. The two armies fought a pitched battle on the plain.
8. Each side committed its reserves and a pitched battle followed.
9. She so much wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
10. The two merchants came to a pitched battle in the market place.
11. Fifteen days of campaigning are left and the real pitched battle now begins.
12. After a pitched battle, no less than 29 of the gang were arrested.
13. The Order fought a pitched battle with Death Eaters in June of 19
14. Conservationists fought a pitched battle with developers over the future of the site.
15. All three companies are in a pitched battle over who invented the technology.
16. Our country is engaged in a pitched battle in a fiercely competitive commercial world.
17. It was almost impossible to induce the Iraqi soldiers to fight a pitched battle.
18. Bull after pitched battle, or into a draw or a win - defeat, came to an end.
19. There followed a pitched battle at a bridge across the Dnestr river leading into the town.
20. It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
21. There was a pitched battle here a few hours ago, but soldiers are nowhere in sight now.
22. There are few archers or hand gunners who can stand against decent combat troops in a pitched battle.
23. He describes how he killed two young workers taken prisoner in a pitched battle inside a factory workshop.
24. The month before, the Metropolitans had fought a pitched battle with their rivals for control of City Hall.
25. A pitched battle between the two sets of fans developed on the terraces after the match was over.
26. There a painting shows soldiers crossing above the Barranca River in 1860 using ropes and pulleys during a pitched battle.
27. The tension between these two men turned the last stretch of the quest for the longitude prize into a pitched battle.
28. The other type of offence involved in effect a preconceived and premeditated pitched battle, often accompanied by the use of weapons.
29. 30 The other type of offence involved in effect a preconceived and premeditated pitched battle, often accompanied by the use of weapons.
30. Nur al-Din took advantage of the absence of Amalric and Jerusalem's army to attack the Crusader States, winning a pitched battle and retaking the city of Harim.
31. Avoiding the decisive pitched battle Darius sought, the Scythians’ King Idanthyrsus laid waste the countryside, blocking wells and destroying pastures, while Attriting the invaders with skirmishes and hit and run attacks.