Sentence examples for describing fighting from inspiring English sources

An A.P. dispatch today quoted Patricia Tomé, a United Nations spokeswoman on the scene, as describing fighting as near as 200 yards to United Nations bases in Bunia, where thousands of civilians have taken refuge.

Pau Comeu, literally translated, means "wood eaters", a Brazilian term used to describe fighting.

Callahan switches quickly into a casual mode for the second verse, and describes fighting with his sister.

He also alluded to Catholic theology when he described fighting AIDS in Africa as "a work of mercy" -- a reference to the "seven corporal works of mercy".

Ben Ryder Howe described fighting with his mother-in-law on the merits of steam tables in his forthcoming book "My Korean Deli".

Josephy describes fighting through the bloody battles of Guam, Saipan and Iwo Jima, going into action with rifle and tape recorder.

One bloodied soldier after another described fighting for the first hours, then running out of ammunition and crawling away from the battle to hide in farming ditches and wait for reinforcements.

Accounts by both the army and local witnesses described fighting throughout the day between the gunmen and Israeli tanks protecting bulldozers working near the Termit outpost facing the Rafah refugee camp on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

In a conference call with analysts yesterday, Citigroup's chief executive, Charles O. Prince, described fighting the litigation as a "roll of the dice" and noted that the bank faced legal claims of as much as $54 billion in the WorldCom matter.

Randall describes fighting with her mother for permission to leave the house before it was light, in order to attend early-morning meetings of the math team, of which she was the first female captain.

This is how US Army veteran Alex Horton describes fighting in Iraq in 2007.