Example sentences for: battlefield

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

  • The nearby Arch of Constantine celebrates the fourth-century emperor’s battlefield conversion to Christianity.

  • The general could not be taken seriously, wrote Abdelbari Atwan in an editorial, "for his greatest achievements have not been in the battlefield in Palestine or the Golan but in composing romantic poetry extolling beautiful women."

  • During prolonged mid-19 th -century conflagrations like the American Civil War and the Crimean War, battlefield casualties were unprecedentedly high and civilian casualties were increasingly considered inevitable.

  • In fact--with the help of his father's connections--he was conveniently detached from a unit headed for the battlefield and spent his tour doing administrative tasks.

  • "It," of course, is the war wound, the battlefield maiming of his arm and shoulder during World War II--or, as the Washington Post 's David Maraniss and other writers have upgraded it for their journalistic purposes, the Wound.


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