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Example sentences for: skirmish

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3) The bodyguards got into a deadly turf skirmish this week, which bodes ill for the elections.
And this month's votes are but a skirmish in the crusades.
This facial skirmish is often accompanied by a slight forward bend at the waist and a what-me-worry?
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).
But a Tory militia led by bagpipes put down the so-called Mackenzie Rebellion in a skirmish lasting just a few minutes.