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Example sentences for "combatted"

Lexicographically close words:
combated; combating; combative; combativeness; combats; combatting; combattre; combed; comber; combers
  1. He errs when he thinks that I combatted this position in my book Socialismo e criminalitĂ .

  2. This he combatted by showing that not lack of natural advantages but gross mismanagement had been responsible for the fate of these enterprises.

  3. With this disparity of numbers, and growing greater every day, Lee successfully combatted Grant for almost a year without a rest of a week from battle somewhere along his lines.

  4. You combatted the march of Sherman from the Saltkahatchie to the close, and stacked your arms more as conquering heroes than beaten foes.

  5. Simultaneously they attempted to invade the suburb of Sampaloc by way of Santa Mesa and there also they were combatted and dispersed by 60 Veteran Guards who prevented, by their defence, a day of mourning for the city of Manila.

  6. But if anything is now to be done, it must be done by stratagem, for the enemy are, by far, in too great force to be personally combatted with.

  7. This notion was combatted by St. Thomas(983) and implicitly rejected by the Tridentine Council when it declared that sanctifying grace inheres in the soul and may be increased by good works.

  8. The abbé Jachinci published four volumes against Beccaria, calling him the destroyer of justice and morality, simply because he had combatted the tortures and the death penalty.

  9. Ideas must be combatted by ideas, and it is only by the propaganda of the idea that we can prepare humanity for its future.

  10. So far as I am concerned, I have combatted this opinion from the very inauguration of the positive school of criminology, and I combat it today.

  11. Haeckel admits that the belief that this is the missing link is strongly combatted by some distinguished scientists.

  12. All these have been in turn combatted by other evolutionist writers, and the war goes on and has produced libraries of volumes.

  13. Pringle had sundry experiences of the darling boy's tractable disposition, and was rather disinclined in being so intimately associated with the young hopeful, so he combatted the point.

  14. Both combatted under the eyes of their respective sovereigns, maintained the honor of their country, and paid an ample tribute to the carnage of the day.

  15. He successfully combatted the specious doctrines of Boerhaave, depending on the humoral pathology; founding his own views on an enlarged view of the principles of Hoffman.

  16. The time approaches in which she is about to yield to the manners of her age, and to the long-combatted wants of her heart.

  17. His anaemia of a transplanted plant, combatted and almost vanquished by a regime that was country-like, returned on such mornings.

  18. This attraction, reasoned and combatted with the logical weapons of his character, became the stronger, dominated him consciously and unconsciously.

  19. Ropars combatted these fears, repeating that the Surgeon was encouraged, and that all would go well.

  20. Surgeon, for not having more vigorously combatted her fears; "he has not given us any hope!

  21. Those who have combatted the committee have made a fundamental error.

  22. Nor was he the victim of constitutional disease, which had been fought and combatted until it had at last triumphed and brought down the torn banner of manhood trailing in the dust.

  23. And at first Garth combatted a quick impulse to let go.

  24. The curtains were wider, but always, as he forced her back, he combatted the desire to draw her closer instead, to heal with his lips the scar with which his precipitancy had marked her.

  25. Troubles looked like the necessary things to be combatted fearlessly to reach the success that must await them beyond; life, indeed, was one rosy, golden, glorious dream.

  26. The uncanny feeling that Innstetten had so often combatted in Effi, or had at least laughed at, now came over him, and he was glad when they had driven past.

  27. This was a superhuman task, and the man who undertook it must necessarily be subject to some of the disadvantages which he himself had so grandly combatted in the Catholic Church.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combatted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.