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Example sentences for "battleground"

Lexicographically close words:
battledore; battledores; battlefield; battlefields; battlefront; battlegrounds; battleline; battlement; battlemented; battlements
  1. This was to be the battleground of an inevitable war with Russia.

  2. Every conceivable thing that a modern army should know about a future battleground the British army knew.

  3. The battleground is now removed to the problem of the historicity of the ostensible origins of the cult; and scholarly orthodoxy takes for granted many positions which fifty years ago were typical of "German rationalism.

  4. Could the discussion have been continuous--could England have remained what she was in the main deistic period, a workshop of investigation and a battleground of ideas--all European development might have been indefinitely hastened.

  5. We will then motor to whatever portion of the battleground we are to be permitted to see.

  6. There were also giant piles of steel helmets, pieces of shell, twisted and rusted bayonets, all the tragic refuse of a cleared battleground after the fury of war has passed.

  7. Yet she insists as many Americans as possible should visit the French battleground later when peace is declared.

  8. And I should like to inscribe above the door of the home I shall build 'Glorious France, the Battleground of Liberty.

  9. Whether China will be turned at that time into a battleground for the Chinese people or for the foreign Powers I cannot tell you.

  10. It was charged that Grant was drunk; that he was far away from the battleground when the attack was made, and was wholly unprepared to meet the terrible onslaught of the enemy in the earlier stages of the encounter.

  11. His body was easily found, his burial place having been carefully marked by members of the Second Minnesota who arrived on the battleground a short time after the battle.

  12. The battleground chosen was in a bend of the Potomac, Lee's left resting on the river above and around to the front to near the point where the Antietam enters the Potomac on the right.

  13. Brigade had been assigned to that division, but it and one of the other of Hood's brigades failed to reach the battleground in time to participate in the glories of that event.

  14. Such is the legend of the great battleground and the river from whence it takes its name.

  15. His idea coincided with Longstreet's in this particular, that the North, Kentucky, Tennessee, or Maryland should be the theatre of war and the battleground of the Confederacy.

  16. Belgium is the battleground of the war on the western front.

  17. But Belgium is also the battleground of the struggle in our country between the forces of good and of evil.

  18. The battleground was covered by thick woods, with occasional clearings, and the troops fought at close range.

  19. He left the battleground by riding behind another Indian.

  20. I camped on that battleground in 1870 while hunting buffaloes.

  21. At Baxter I saw the battleground where Quantrell, the guerrilla, captured General Blunt's supply train in 1864.

  22. Next morning Lieutenant Baldwin asked me to walk over the battleground with him.

  23. The battleground was at the mouth of Tygh Creek on the ridge where we, as emigrants, had come down the Deschutes hill two years before.

  24. The west, however, still lured him on and afterward he made a tour of Kansas, at which time the state was the battleground of the parties who were contending whether it should be admitted as a free or a slave state.

  25. On the morning of the second of November the scouts brought positive information that the rebels were advancing, and the next day it was reported that they were camped on the old battleground at Wilson's Creek and would fight there.

  26. They remained in the woods adjoining the battleground one day and two nights, dressing the wounded, and packing up their booty, with which they retired unmolested.

  27. Not far from the battleground was an island in the Susquehanna, called Monockonock, to which several of the fugitive militia-men fled for security throwing away their arms, and swimming the river.

  28. But her mind was a battleground with no armistice.

  29. Her hair was black disorder to her waist, her body a battleground of bruises, dirt, scars old and new, and she winced away from Dorothy with protesting hands.

  30. Wednesfield"; but the utilitarianism of the farmer and the miner would make it difficult to find many of these grass-crowned records on the Willenhall side of the battleground now.

  31. In the last battle he was left on the field for dead, but in the next Federal advance he was discovered quietly grazing on the battleground with a deep wound in his neck.

  32. Embedded in the floor of the "Shrine of Memory" are memorial coffers which contain authentic, labeled ground and sea battle mementos from battleground areas.

  33. The march was continued, and the troops arrived at the battleground two hours after the action had closed.

  34. These Heights were the battleground of a few months before when Burnside tried in vain to drive the Confederates from their crest.

  35. The most desperate struggle of the day was to get possession of Little Round Top, which was the key to the whole battleground west and south of Cemetery Ridge.

  36. At the foot of the slope were the stone wall and the sunken road, which was the battleground of a few months before in the battle of Fredericksburg.

  37. This was Horace's first sight of a battleground that had been swept by two armies.

  38. Broqueville, made a tour of the battleground in the Dixmude district last Wednesday, says: "No pen could do justice to the grandeur and horror of the scene.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "battleground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    battlefield; field; front; line; shambles; theater