How to Use in battle in a Sentence

in battle

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  • Their head coach will not join them in battle.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • False Which weapon does Zoey use in battle?
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Now, tanks are used in battle far less than in 2022.
    Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Dozens have been wounded in battle, and some have been killed or captured.
    Nicole Tung, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Sword Which weapon does Mira use in battle?
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Knives Which weapon does Rumi use in battle?
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There are the soldiers killed in battle, and the civilian victims of war.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • This life-after-death world features many souls who have fallen in battle.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Lukashevych said both drones on display had been tested in battle.
    Anastasiia Malenko, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Soldiers die not in battle, but from hunger, yet the government does not care about them.
    The Learning Network, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • He’s taken prisoner, forced to fight, and dies in battle.
    Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • No nation has used nuclear weapons in battle since.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Was it newly made in the Kyburg forge or already worn in battle?
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But like that game, a ridiculous number of items can be used to bolster attacks in battle.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The commander had served in battle, knows what issues the troops need to master.
    Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But Rhaenyra—as the rightful queen—cannot risk dying in battle.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 29 July 2024
  • The recorded monologue is the story of a woman hardened in battle with a lover.
    Marina Isgro, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • Jason Momoa is back in battle — this time for a passion project years in the making.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 July 2025
  • But when his forces are overwhelmed in battle, Kratos pledges his life to Ares, the god of war, to turn the tide.
    Alyse Stanley, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Last week, Arondir was locked in battle with an orc in a week of civilian casualties.
    Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Victory in battle is made more likely by the actions of heroes.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • His trainer’s son had been killed in battle in Gaza weeks before the Games began.
    Ben Sales, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Then there’s the matter of training a spider, once captured, to have success in battle.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Arthur has been killed in battle by Mordred, his son by his own sister, Morgause.
    Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Napoleon, however, wore his in battle with the wings parallel to his shoulders.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Pistols were first created for officers to shoot their own men, in order to force them to charge in battle.
    Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The national film archive was blown open in battle, its treasures now yellowing in the sun.
    Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Those involve besting a fellow warrior in battle.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Tanks have been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century.
    Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Accidents, personal quirks, shifting luck—these all play a role in battle and in the outcomes of war.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026

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