Example sentences for: battlefield

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

  • "CLINTON ACQUITTED DECISIVELY," announced the New York Times . Sunday's talk show pundits scavenged the battlefield, pronouncing Republicans the losers.

  • The aim of the resolution was to hit the Taliban where it was most sensitive- on the battlefield against the Northern Alliance-and criminalize giving them arms and providing military "advisers," which Pakistan had been doing.

  • The Kremlin, we learn, had decided to use tactical battlefield nuclear weapons against U.S. troops if Kennedy invaded Cuba.

  • There are shots aplenty from times of war and protest: the curve of a fighter jet; Iwo Jima, in black and white; a Black Panther's finger snap; battlefield comradeship; a civil-rights clash; the dun and dunes of what appears to be Operation Desert Storm; an anti-Vietnam War rally; then the Vietnam War Memorial, in sunset silhouette.

  • "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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