He had made just such empty gestures when he had battled for an increase in salary, using Hilmer's weapons instead of his own, and again when he had committed himself to Fairview with such a theatrical flourish.
He was working in the dark, very much as Fred Starratt had worked during those heartbreaking months when he had battled for place in the business world.
See on its battled tower appear Phantoms, that scutcheons seem to rear, And blazon'd banners toss!
Of battled wall, and rampart's aid, 90 As stately seem'st, but lovelier far Than in that panoply of war.
On a projecting rock they rose, And round three sides the ocean flows, The fourth did battled walls enclose, And double mound and fosse.
Such were the leading home incidents preparatory to the great struggle in which great nations battled for ascendancy.
While rapturebattled with surprise She raised to his her wistful eyes.
See, Lakshmaṇ, how the vulture fell While for my sake he battled well.
I battled to avenge the cause Of honour and insulted laws.
In air, on earth, on plain, on hill, With awful might he battled still; And through the hours of night and day The conflict knew no pause or stay.
With scent of precious sandal sweet Down to the nails upon thy feet, First of the household thou shalt go And pay with scorn each battled foe.
The countries have lived in peace and harmony and together, or side by side they have battled for peace on the fields of Flanders.
For years the head of the House of Hohenzollern, descendant of the ancient margraves of Germany who have battled with the old Romans, made it manifest in speech and by action that his ambition was to create a world empire.
Doctor Powell and Limber had brought her to Mrs. Traynor, and for long weeks afterward they had battled untiringly to save the life that threatened to slip away.
He, who had butchered and battled so liberally, died in 860 B.
On the other side of the ledge, Tom Howard battled with the scar-faced man.
His captains sprang to their respective wheels andbattled desperately among themselves for steerage way.
From the center of the struggling mass of men and boats came a sudden flare of light which dispelled the dark shadows cast athwart the vessels and brought into bold relief the struggling figures of the men who battled on the decks.
Down on the Levee rich and poor battled for places on the landing-stages, and would have thrown themselves into the flood had there been no boats to save them from the dreaded Dutch.
Some were engaged in fighting gnats and June bugs, while others battledwith mosquitoes--all save the young man who wrote, he being wholly indifferent.
And so he turned from the man whose friendship had stayed him for the score of years he had battled with his enemies, from that house which had been for so long his only home.
They thought the giant verily would That moment after them stride: Not one of them all would have battled with him; Back would they all have hied.
When from keep and battled tower, Flames to heaven upward strain, Song has o'er them greater power, Than the vapours dropping rain.
It was the sort of thing that seemed to drain the blood from a fellow's body, and dumped ice cubes on his brain, no matter how many times he had personally battled with death.
But Dave battled with it tooth and nail, and got the nose to swinging upward.
Towards evening, after the 'Aurora' had battled for hours slowly to the east, the sea went down somewhat and some drifting ice was sighted.
We battled with one enormous boulder for some time before getting it into a suitable position for the camera, and afterwards walked right through the glacial area.
Where the tough champion who, with Calvin's sword, In wordy conflictsbattled for the Lord?
Shattered and seamed, scarred and disintegrated, they look as though earthquake and lightning shock and the storms of a thousand years had battled with them.
It was a preposterous request, and he battled against it with all his might, only to find that the fates were on her side.
The doctor thought he had battled too long at first, when he dragged himself about, though feeling ill.
He grew warm at the thought of Clara, he battled with her, he knew the curves of her breast and shoulders as if they had been moulded inside him; and yet he did not positively desire her.
So the mother sat, and battled and brooded bitterly.
She said I was a baby of four, and that I always had battled her off.
How has his parenthood outwatched the stars; How has the Winter melted at his glance; How has his armor battled with the snows!
She battled with her weakness as St George battled with the fiery dragon.
Then Turks and Crusaders battled desperately beneath the very walls of Antioch and in sight of the people on its ramparts.
Sometimes the Christians battled against the Moors, sometimes Christians against Christians, and Moors against Moors; but always there was conflict and struggle.
There, standing, he fought himself inch by inch; battled against the knowledge of the inevitable that had been dogging him day by day, hour by hour.
Once more his brain sent the message to kill, once more he battled against the inevitable; and that message was the last.
The phosphorescent glow bathed the sea in wondrous light all about; only the stars and the weird illumination of the waves battled with the darkness; there was no moon.
He battled courageously, not from ambition, but from an inborn love of truth.
And although they necessarily had manifest trials and difficulties to discourage and beset them, they battled bravely with all these odds and reached the Vigilance Committee safely.
The day that he "dodged" he also took the Underground Rail Road, and although ignorant of letters, he battled his way out of Maryland, and succeeded in reaching Pennsylvania and the Committee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "battled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: armed; arrayed; engaged; ranged
