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Example sentences for: skirmish

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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.
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.
And this month's votes are but a skirmish in the crusades.