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Example sentences for "hard fighting"

  • Tientsin itself was captured by the allies after one dayʼs hard fighting, and the army then advanced to the relief of the Legations.

  • At present there is hard fighting going on round that place.

  • Our salvation, therefore, is in the might of our hands and in hard fighting.

  • Meanwhile the earth-encircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force.

  • You two should be of all men foremost when there is hard fighting to be done, for you are ever foremost to accept my invitation when we councillors of the Achaeans are holding feast.

  • But the battle was now at a standstill, the battalions were visibly thinned, their strength was sapped by four hours of hard fighting, and the ammunition of the infantry was almost exhausted.

  • The 5th Bavarian Brigade was driven back for some considerable distance, but presently, supported by the 6th, regained its old position after an hour's hard fighting.

  • There was no hour during the day when there was not heavy firing and generally hard fighting at some point on the line, but seldom at all points at the same time.

  • Some of them, however, estimated by the losses on both sides in killed and wounded, were equal in hard fighting to most of the battles of the Mexican war which attracted so much of the attention of the public when they occurred.

  • The battle of Champion's Hill lasted about four hours, hard fighting, preceded by two or three hours of skirmishing, some of which almost rose to the dignity of battle.

  • After many days of hard fighting in which the Americans proved themselves fully equal to the best shock troops of the German army, victory fell to the better army.

  • He tried to get his army away, but the men were weak from hard fighting, and Sheridan, with his cavalry, was too quick for him.

  • After several days of hard fighting, Cortés and his men tried to get out of the city, but the Indians fell on the little army and killed more than half of the Spanish soldiers before they could get away.

  • After several days of hard fighting, the Piedmontese under Charles Albert were totally defeated by the Austrians under Radetsky, and retreated to Milan.

  • The place had been besieged ten weeks when the Scottish general directed a furious cannonade against the walls; at nightfall the besiegers advanced to the onset, and after two hours' hard fighting at the breaches, forced their entry.

  • Battle near Almonacid; the Spaniards defeated by the French under Joseph Bonaparte, and compelled to retreat, after nine hours' hard fighting.

  • Hard fighting at Antwerp, between the Dutch and Belgians; the former were driven into the citadel, where they commenced cannonading the town, and did great execution.

  • They did not, but took all they gained by hard fighting.

  • They are tragic facts, because for English troops it is always a tragedy to withdraw from any yard of soil they have taken by hard fighting, and many good London lads will never come back from that morass.

  • In the centre there was still some hard fighting.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    especially interesting; free person; hard and; hard currency; hard fight; hard fighting; hard lines; hard luck; hard master; hard pressed; hard rubber; hard sauce; hard stone; hard tack; hard task; hard time; hard winter; hardly able; hardly know; hardly knowing; hardly more; hardware store; hardy annual; police headquarters; secret ballot; shall wish