How to Use battlefield in a Sentence

battlefield

noun
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  • Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.
  • Now, despite setbacks on the battlefield, the state of the soup was strong.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The soil of the battlefield coats their uniforms, fills their lungs, clogs their guns.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, Russia is playing the long game on the battlefield.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • Things seemed to be going so well for Vladimir Putin — at home and on the battlefield.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The war was won on the battlefield (and by the French navy) and Franklin’s diplomacy moved all the pieces and the peace into place.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The United States has pledged to deliver 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and plans to ship them to the battlefield by the fall.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, Meyer wasn't hurt badly enough to leave the battlefield.
    — Steve Karnowski, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Weapons experts as well have tied Houthi arms seized on the battlefield back to Iran.
    — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The true value of Soledar's capture may not be on the battlefield.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The delay gave Russia time to make up ground on the battlefield.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 June 2024
  • But those tanks remain weeks or months away from the battlefield.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • On the battlefield, the gunner lines up an enemy tank in his sights and then fires.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • And then there is model stealing—a battlefield all of its own.
    — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Some report seeing the ghosts of soldiers on the battlefield.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • Speed and range will make the Army’s air assault forces more effective on the battlefield.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The Mirai group waited a couple of days to assess the battlefield.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • It has not been done in the field, in a battlefield situation.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
  • Gun control has been loose since the 1990s Yugoslav wars, when many brought back weapons from battlefields.
    — Jovana Gec, ajc, 8 May 2023
  • But, as with every war, the terms of a possible peace were defined by events on the battlefield.
    — Simon Shuster/bürgenstock, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • Remi Lucidi, a sergeant in the French army, died far from a battlefield.
    — Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The business world is a battlefield, and profit margins are the scorecards.
    — Stephen Nalley, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • They are expected to be ready for use on the battlefield by early spring.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The Kremlin warned that tanks supplied by allies to Ukraine would be destroyed on the battlefield.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • And if that were to take place, just being able to move hostages around the battlefield in a way that is safe, get them to a gate leading outside of Gaza would take time.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • If Putin outsmarts us on the battlefield and mounts a counter-offensive . . .
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Russian forces have been creeping forward on the battlefield this year, but the progress has been costly.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Sep. 2024
  • All actors benefit from the technical learnings of live weapons testing on the battlefield.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
  • As this dynamic becomes routine, the home—once a sanctuary—starts feeling more like a battlefield.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

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