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Example sentences for: skirmish

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Many of the groups in Syria have long since given up arms for political activism, but some, such as Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, still skirmish with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon (Syria forbids such actions on its own soil).
This facial skirmish is often accompanied by a slight forward bend at the waist and a what-me-worry?
And this month's votes are but a skirmish in the crusades.
But a Tory militia led by bagpipes put down the so-called Mackenzie Rebellion in a skirmish lasting just a few minutes.
If you only take one trip from Boston, make it to Lexington and Concord where the American Revolution began with a skirmish and the shot that was “heard around the world” was fired.