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Example sentences for "fighters"

Lexicographically close words:
figgy; fight; fighte; fighten; fighter; fighteth; fightin; fighting; fightings; fights
  1. Between this and the seats of the spectators is a narrow passage-way, where those bull-fighters who are not at the moment engaged take their stations.

  2. As the bulls in these encounters have not been weakened by many wounds and tired out by much running, the performances of the gentlemen fighters are remarkable for pluck and dexterity.

  3. Now here is a case where I'm sorry the French air fighters are such confounded good marksmen.

  4. The lad made out the forms of several sky fighters several miles away.

  5. The rear deck, or platform, for it was little more, was entirely out of sight and range of the fighters in the forest on the bank the boy had just left, so he climbed up on it with confidence.

  6. While Jule waited for the fighters to come to the surface again, hoping that he might be able to do something toward releasing the man, Alex came bobbing around the corner of the boat.

  7. The sleeper rolled off his blanket and tumbled overboard, striking one of the fighters squarely on the nose.

  8. It will avoid trouble, for Matanzima, to whom all the fighters look up, will never know.

  9. Now, Kulondeka, I would ask where are better fighters than the men of the House of Gaika?

  10. Never, perhaps, in all modern warfare has the musket been so useless as amidst the drenching rains which beat upon the fighters at the Katzbach and before Dresden.

  11. First came the foot grenadiers and chasseurs of the Imperial Guard: behind the central group marched other squadrons and battalions of these veterans, already famed as the doughtiest fighters of their age.

  12. Instantly there came an answering crackle, and exasperated fire-fighters rushed to meet the latest sortie of their enemy.

  13. But it's mine," one of the fire-fighters wailed.

  14. The California Hundred, trained fighters and good horsemen, went to Massachusetts in 1862 and were assigned to the Second Cavalry.

  15. A remarkable combat took place in 1398 on London Bridge, a wooden structure broad enough to give room for the fighters and spectators.

  16. Pictures of prize-fighters and race-horses hung on the walls, and at the far end of the saloon there was a sort of bar, behind which he noted some black bottles.

  17. In the arena, meanwhile, the dripping fighters went on with the sport and the bull, startled and drenched, was in no mood for play.

  18. The champions were poor nobles, of good blood but scanty substance, who fought for glory and pensions, and had quadrilles of well-trained bull-fighters at their stirrups to prevent the farce from becoming tragedy.

  19. The fighters of that day were high priests of art; there was something of veneration in the regard that was paid them.

  20. There was a race of gladiators then, such as the world will never see again,--mighty fighters before the king.

  21. If we prove able fighters we are permitted to fight often.

  22. The tide of battle had not reached us, but the fighters from time to time swung close enough that we might distinctly note them.

  23. Fate, assisted by the radio back at the desert camp, and three Messerschmitt 109 single seater fighters sent streaking away from the nearest Nazi air base.

  24. They had gone up for more altitude instead, and had tried to race beyond the defending Victory fighters and reach their objectives far to the east.

  25. They are good fighters and, when the sincere ones begin, they will plant their flag where the insincere and mere politicians will be forced to stand by it to save their faces.

  26. It was not even their fight then--and raw fighters need a flaming cause.

  27. It belonged to a man who leaned against a pilaster, looking dreamily out into the glare where, after a brief struggle, the band of fighters for the faith had pushed aside the timid door-keepers and forced their way to the inner garden.

  28. The fighters listen to women who can make their flame.

  29. Eventually an appreciable number of our best fighters were sent to the Grand Fleet--which, however, is by no means to be understood as implying that our own coasts are unprotected.

  30. At 5 o'clock the attack came, and there began the tremendous sacrifices which the Marine Corps gladly suffered that the German fighters might be thrown back.

  31. It was a false report, but the honor done our naval fighters stands.

  32. In the meantime had occurred a very pretty incident which is now one of the stock stories in the ward-rooms of British and American sea-fighters in European waters.

  33. We have already noted Admiral Beatty's action in assigning American battleships to the place of honor in the line of sea-fighters which went forth to meet a reported German attack some time ago.

  34. The destroyers upon their first arrival were based on Queenstown, which has been the base of the operations of these best fighters of the submarines during the war.

  35. As it happened, the German sea fighters never sallied forth in battle array, their final appearance being less warlike.

  36. No one ever doubted the spirit of our fighters of the sea.

  37. Our navy aviators, in fact, were the first force of American fighters to land upon European soil after war was declared.

  38. I supposed you imagined me one of those gun-fighters who couldn't take a dare and expected me to ride up to your camp and be arrested.

  39. Some of them were outlaws and gun-fighters before they became rangers.

  40. It is true that many of them were expert fighters both with ax and with sword, but they were unused to carry heavy armor, and a half-armed man would have short shrift in such a hand-to-hand struggle as lay before them.

  41. But the fighters had seen nothing of his fate, for desperate and unceasing was the rush of the Bretons and the steady advance of the English line.

  42. The French seamen, Bretons and Normans, were stout, powerful fellows, armed with axes and swords, fierce fighters and brave men.

  43. All good fighters ain't good men; I sure know that.

  44. The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.

  45. But at the moment Alix had more concern with the likenesses, with the common aim of the fighters rather than with their different flags.

  46. The rest of the fighters fled, and one climbed up the side of the paling and came within two inches of being impaled alive against the side by the bull's horns.

  47. The professional bull-fighters got their red flags and drew the bull off, and the greaser escaped, and seemed to be surprised at the excitement of the audience.

  48. There were bills posted about the city that three of the most celebrated fighters of Mexico would have an exhibition in the evening, and combat with animals.

  49. These were conquerors of men, fighters by instinct and habit, but here they sat laughing and chattering with a helpless girl, and not a one of them but would have cut the others' throats rather than see her come to harm.

  50. The way I understand it, Jim Silent has about twenty gun fighters and long riders working in gangs under him and combining for big jobs.

  51. If he gives the command four practised fighters pit themselves against Barry.

  52. Here were five practised fighters who feared nothing between heaven and hell, but what could they avail him against a bodiless spirit?

  53. But very few fighters armed with cuirass and shield were killed in the front lines.

  54. What more terrible fighters could be imagined?

  55. You may have seen a pair of fighters smiling in that same way when the gong has sounded and they have put up their hands at the beginning of a finish contest.

  56. Among the gun-fighters of southern Arizona none was better known than he, and Joe Phy was his deputy.

  57. And the gun-fighters were eager to get into the game.

  58. They were men of parts, seasoned fighters in a fighting land, but they were men of sense.

  59. But even as Dave stared at them the glows grew fainter and fainter, indicating that the city's fire fighters were quickly getting the flames under control.

  60. It was only a nuisance raid, and Soviet anti-aircraft guns and Soviet night fighters were making the Luftwaffe pay a heavy price for the few Moscow buildings they hit with their bombs.


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