Sentence examples for combats in from inspiring English sources

The Roman Forum was the scene of public meetings, law courts, and gladiatorial combats in republican times and was lined with shops and open-air markets.

The first Roman combats, in 264 bce, were probably derived from Etruscan funeral games in which mortal combat provided companions for the deceased.

"In the course of the past three years, this year has been a very active year for the Revolutionary Guards and this can be detected by counting the number of Iranians killed in combats in Syria," he said.

"The field of Battle exhibits this morning a most shocking spectacle too dreadful to describe … Those officers who were in the Peninsula describe the battles there as mere combats in comparison with that of yesterday".

When the scandal first broke, Mr. Haggard did not admit to being gay; in the film he concedes that he has homosexual desires that he combats, in accordance with his faith.

Three days later, he fought the first of several combats in the B.E.2; he and his observer, Lieutenant S. A. Villiers, fired a drum and a half of Lewis gun ammunition at an enemy two-seater, but were driven off by a second one.

Wounded in combat in Iraq.

She had seen combat in the desert.

Wounded in combat in colonial Algeria.

He died in aerial combat in 1917.

Mr. Patino was killed in combat in Afghanistan in June 2010.