How to Use battlefield in a Sentence

battlefield

noun
  • Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.
  • Russia is trying to reverse its fortunes on the battlefield.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The combination of battlefield losses and Western sanctions could even drive it from the ranks of the great powers.
    WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • IEDs are non-existent on the battlefield, and the Guardian’s turret can lay down a lot of firepower.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Watch for expert insights on the political battlefield!
    Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Putin hopes to break the will of the Ukrainian people, after their resistance humiliated his forces on the battlefield.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Moscow says the terms reflect reality on the battlefield, where Russian forces have been advancing.
    Dmitry Antonov, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • By most accounts, Russia’s primary concern was not the weapon itself or its potential impact on the battlefield.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The new Black Panther is incredibly agile, moving quickly on this unique battlefield.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Oct. 2022
  • 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

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