COMBAT in a Sentence

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For COMBAT, below is one of 150 sentences:
Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondetour, had witnessed, shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMBAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
combat
 v.  struggle as with an opposing force; fight with
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
2  The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives and it dies there; it was only yesterday.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  The wall seems ready to renew the combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  The slope there is so steep that the English cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, which was the centre of the combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
5  This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which were flung into this ravine the day after the combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
6  The form of this combat was monstrous.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
7  Their specific gravity in the human species results from something more than a combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8  Sometimes they enter into combat there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
9  The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of to-morrow.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
10  What we here call combat may also be designated as progress.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
11  To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
12  Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondetour, had witnessed, shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
13  It was necessary to combat it, and this was a duty, for it attacked the republic.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
14  Hence his very natural presence in this combat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
15  The troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  There is nothing so fearful as to be alone in a combat situation.
2  Liaison between police forces and the art world is vital to combat art crime.
3  He was wearing black combat trousers and a hooded fleece.
4  The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.
5  Police are planning sterner measures to combat crime.
6  Parliament has not yet begun to combat the deepening economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.
7  This bizarre combat is a very dangerous one - refer to the Profiles section.
8  We need effective strategies to combat sexual harassment in the workplace.
9  The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
10  But in aerial combat, the possibility of mechanical failure paled beside the dangers of enemy fire.
11  The ship has to combat the wind and waves this morning.
12  Allowing women to join the infantry and take on combat positions, would fortify military efforts.
13  Even advocates of the war lament the loss of so many lives in combat.
14  The NFL began to laud Boomer Esiason's efforts to raise money to combat cystic fibrosis.
15  For example, one of the games I played involves sword-and-shield combat against a virtual gladiator.