How to Use battlefield in a Sentence

battlefield

noun

• 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
• 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
• Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 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
• The Mirai group waited a couple of days to assess the battlefield.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Gun control has been loose since the 1990s Yugoslav wars, when many brought back weapons from battlefields.
  — Jovana Gec, ajc, 8 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• But Moscow has fixed many errors and adapted on the battlefield.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
• What's happening on the battlefield, though, is -- is a stasis.
  — ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
• Humans have crossed paths on the battlefield for so long that war has become an intrinsic part of our species.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• Whatever the merits of that claim, this weekend Biden plunged once more into the sprawling battlefields of the post-9/11 era.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• But participants in Kyiv could not hide a sense of growing fatigue as the war nears its 21st month and progress on the battlefield has mostly stalled.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• If television is a battlefield, broadcast and cable seem to be losing the long war.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• Could cluster bombs make a difference on the battlefield?
  — Time, 6 July 2023
• Ukraine is taking the war to its Russian enemy — both on the battlefield and with drone attacks on Moscow.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 4 Aug. 2023
• During that time Ukrainian forces have not been able to achieve any decisive breakthrough on the battlefield.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
• That would only be possible if the West remains united behind Ukraine and Kyiv’s forces make progress on the battlefield.
  — Thomas Graham, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2023
• Some dodge the draft, while those already serving desert or refuse orders to redeploy on the bloody, chaotic battlefields of Ukraine.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• Since the fall Russia has been pushing to regain the initiative on the battlefield and has made gradual gains in eastern areas of the front lines.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• But Ukraine chose to stem the losses on the battlefield and switch to a tactic of relying on smaller units to push forward across different areas of the front.
  — John Hudson and Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The current situation on the battlefield yields a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty picture.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2023
• Only with more and better weapons systems—both offensive and defensive—can Ukraine turn the tide on the battlefield.
  — Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 May 2024