Example sentences for: embattled

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

  • As the forces of rebellion gathered momentum this spring in the Republic of Zaire, commentators felt obliged to offer a thumb-sucking retrospective on the country's embattled and dying president, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had held power for more than three decades.

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

  • Despite it's legal troubles, the embattled publisher has an impressive list of fall titles (many marked with the coveted symbol "Y2K Resource") as well as a solid backlist.

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

  • Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.


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