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Example sentences for "sharp fight"

  • After a sharp fight of a half hour's duration the Scots were seized with panic, and were utterly routed.

  • But after a sharp fight of two hours' duration, in which some 700 men were killed and wounded on the two fleets, Admiral Graves withdrew.

  • The movement resulted in a sharp fight, which lasted until after sunset.

  • Last night my pickets on the Tullahoma road were driven in, after a sharp fight, and my command was put in line of battle, and so remained for an hour or more; but we were not again disturbed.

  • Here King's division of McDowell's corps came suddenly in contact with the enemy, and a sharp fight, with severe loss on either side, ensued.

  • By the time he got there the Confederates were in position to receive him, and a sharp fight ensued, which ended in the flight of the Confederates.

  • Instantly Kilby Smith and Porter responded and a sharp fight followed, but by sunset they succeeded, without great loss, in driving off their assailants.

  • It was a sharp fight, Mr. Glover," Mr. Playford said.

  • After a sharp fight, took possession of the prize, and with the aid of her crew capture the Agile.

  • Sir Lionel Smith's force landed without opposition under cover of the guns of the fleet, and on March 2 the stronghold of the Joassma tribe was carried, after a sharp fight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrived safely; for the very reason; hair brush; held out; medical science; military coup; naval base; relieve the; shall cause; sharp angle; sharp angle; sharp bark; sharp contrast; sharp edge; sharp exclamation; sharp fire; sharp glance; sharp instrument; sharp major; sharp point; sharp sword; sharp teeth; sharp turn; sharply pointed; stand still; strongly inclined