How to Use battlefield in a Sentence

battlefield

noun
  • Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.
  • Now, despite setbacks on the battlefield, the state of the soup was strong.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The soil of the battlefield coats their uniforms, fills their lungs, clogs their guns.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, Russia is playing the long game on the battlefield.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • Things seemed to be going so well for Vladimir Putin — at home and on the battlefield.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The war was won on the battlefield (and by the French navy) and Franklin’s diplomacy moved all the pieces and the peace into place.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The United States has pledged to deliver 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and plans to ship them to the battlefield by the fall.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, Meyer wasn't hurt badly enough to leave the battlefield.
    — Steve Karnowski, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Weapons experts as well have tied Houthi arms seized on the battlefield back to Iran.
    — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The true value of Soledar's capture may not be on the battlefield.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The delay gave Russia time to make up ground on the battlefield.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 June 2024
  • At least some of the people who ran those trainings are now back on the battlefield.
    — Sam Skove, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This flow could change depending on the progress on the battlefield.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 30 June 2022
  • In the past, ambitious men had fought on the battlefield to settle rival claims to the ...
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 14 July 2022
  • The Sentinels sees a new breed of French super-soldier take to the WW1 battlefield.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But those tanks remain weeks or months away from the battlefield.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • On the battlefield, the gunner lines up an enemy tank in his sights and then fires.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The images show Harold leading an army as well as clad in a full suit of armor in the middle of the battlefield.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
  • That is the part of Medusa’s story that gets lost amidst the snakes, the beheading, and the way Perseus used her head as a weapon and triumphed on the battlefield.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • How has the situation changed over the last month and why and where do things stand in the battlefield today?
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And then there is model stealing—a battlefield all of its own.
    — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Some report seeing the ghosts of soldiers on the battlefield.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2023
  • Speed and range will make the Army’s air assault forces more effective on the battlefield.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The brinkmanship over the plant comes as both sides struggle to make meaningful gains on the battlefield.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The Mirai group waited a couple of days to assess the battlefield.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • He was detained on the battlefield in Nangarhar and later taken to the U.S.
    — Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The first one to show up on the battlefield became a target for a Ukrainian drone which dropped a hand grenade right through the driver’s hatch.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Putin has shown himself ready and willing to sustain heavy battlefield losses to further his goals.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • And Putin may be doing just enough to keep Trump happy while continuing to press his advantage on the battlefield.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 Mar. 2025

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