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
  • The war, of course, carried on, both on the battlefield and online.
    — Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And that is why some changes were made in terms of the structure of who is in charge of leading the troops on the battlefield.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • Viewers are ambushed with the sounds of the battlefield and men screaming in pain, but there is one song.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Viewers are ambushed with the sounds of the battlefield and men screaming in pain, but there is one song.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • But the danger doesn’t end in the air—his survival sets off a chain of events that ripple far beyond the battlefield.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 May 2025
  • In fact, some estimates are now that the Ukrainians have as many tanks on the battlefield as the Russians.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Ukraine hits Russia's fleet of bombers The conflict has been heating up, with Russia launching its biggest drone attacks of the war and advancing on the battlefield in May at its fastest rate in six months.
    — Vladimir Soldatkin, USA Today, 3 June 2025
  • That’s why events on the battlefield and at the negotiating table in Istanbul are being watched so closely.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 2 June 2025

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