Example sentences for: embattled

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

  • Many Americans see Saudi Arabia as an enemy, not as an embattled ally.

  • If true, this is an ironic name for a city that would become one of the most constantly and bitterly embattled places on the face of the earth.

  • Instead, in the case of Jews the depth of the mother country runs at about 4 (embattled) million.

  • The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."

  • If they are embattled, it is like the old days in the West, with the invaders surrounded in their forts by the Indians to whom the region belonged.


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