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Example sentences for: skirmish

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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.
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.
This facial skirmish is often accompanied by a slight forward bend at the waist and a what-me-worry?
On This Week , the chief House prosecutor, Henry Hyde, R-Ill., called Clinton's acquittal another "skirmish in the ongoing culture war."