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Example sentences for: skirmish

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This facial skirmish is often accompanied by a slight forward bend at the waist and a what-me-worry?
The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lead with yesterday's skirmish between an Iraqi anti-air missile battery and several American combat aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone over northern Iraq.
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).
3) The bodyguards got into a deadly turf skirmish this week, which bodes ill for the elections.
But a Tory militia led by bagpipes put down the so-called Mackenzie Rebellion in a skirmish lasting just a few minutes.