Example sentences for: battle

How can you use “battle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Part of the fun for the visitor to Hungary is the battle to understand anything at all, whether the words are spoken or written.

  • Henríques consolidated his position by defeating the Moors at the Battle of Ourique in 1139, and celebrated by naming himself the first king of Portugal.

  • It was because the charismatic in music is genuinely awe-inspiring, and to watch the violist trek across Schnittke's barbarous Russian landscape was like watching humanity and inhumanity in ferocious battle, waging every grand and noble struggle that we associate with the 19 th -century violin concertos, except without any of the reassuring triumphalism that, among 19 th -century composers, was indistinguishable from a finale.

  • This is the period when a single issue--Vietnam--came to trump all others in establishing the political order of battle.

  • In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.


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