How to Use battle line in a Sentence

battle line

noun

• By the time Taylor stepped down from the bus, their battle lines had seared in the grass.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of the next month, his team changed position with the battle lines.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Which means the battle lines are now to be fought over what’s in the rearview mirror, not in what comes next.
  — Time, 29 Jan. 2018
• The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• With four months to go until the March primaries, the battle lines have been set.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
• Each award was a shot across the battle line between the two Hollywoods.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
• Plus Democrats draw battle lines over health care in new campaign dust-up.
  — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 16 July 2019
• It’s early, things are fluid and battle lines have yet to be drawn.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2019
• As the impeachment battle lines have been drawn, Jones has tried to cast himself as above the fray.
  — Kim Chandler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
• But as with many a fight over H20, the battle lines were drawn over cities versus farms and who is willing to pay for it.
  — latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The location of the pit also fits with the battle lines from the second battle.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• The battle lines in the Senate over Judge Kavanaugh are still emerging.
  — Byron Tau, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• In recent days it's reached beyond the battle lines with drone strikes on Crimea and Moscow.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
• There were distinct battle lines drawn across the East Village.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• The battle lines seem drawn between the joys of weird science (which the techies cherish) and those who fear consumers will run from that.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
• The battle lines were drawn long ago, in most cases well before Trump even took office.
  — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
• The speaker needs to realize, and also all the members of his caucus need to know, is that the battle lines have been drawn.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• This was a typical battle line for the housing debate more than a decade ago.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, the battle lines are also being drawn for the fall election.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2018
• If nothing else, some say, the new laws clarify the battle lines over free speech in ways that might prove productive in the long run.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2019
• Either way, the battle lines have been drawn — and there’s been fighting on multiple fronts.
  — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• But with City Council members set to vote Thursday on changes to the ordinance, the battle lines over the law haven’t shifted.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• And redistricting fights will be key to shaping the battle lines.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• On the ground, battle lines can be drawn, delineating zones of conflict.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• In recent weeks, the battle lines have changed little, with both sides dug in and shelling each other in the southern reaches of the capital.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• The battle lines were bright and clear—and incredibly porous.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 20 July 2019
• Ahead of the settlement, the primary battle line in the case was a prenuptial agreement signed when the couple married in 1996.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2021
• In the vortex of this debate, once the battle lines were sharply drawn, moderate ground everywhere became hostage to the passions of the two sides.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ?
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2019
• As the battle lines shifted, Mr. Musk used a process called geofencing to restrict where Starlink was available on the front lines.
  — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 28 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024