Sentence examples for been combat from inspiring English sources
noun
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
Sophocles' work was like a "public health project disguised as drama", Isaacs said, as many of the original audiences would have been combat veterans.
Hamat and another senior military officer acknowledged to Human Rights Watch that their forces had been at Camp Bangui and there had been combat, causing some damage.
The next morning I was embarrassed to learn that the explosions had not been combat, but merely to celebrate a Muslim holiday.
They have been combat air pilots since 1993; and more than 150 women have died, with more 800 injured, in service in the decade since 2001.One female veteran who faced enemy fire in both Kuwait and Iraq says she never felt nervous: "The training that you go through means your emotions don't get involved.
The question of how an ironclad fleet should deploy in battle to make best use of the ram was never tested in battle, and if it had been, combat might have shown that rams could only be used against ships which were already stopped dead in the water.
WASHINGTON -- More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war.
"This is combat effectiveness".
Perhaps, instead, it's combat.
"I wonder what it's combat power is?", one asked.
