Sentence examples for engaged by three from inspiring English sources

On 2 August 1964, while operating off the North Vietnamese coast in the Gulf of Tonkin, the USS Maddox was engaged by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats.

The men in the Goatley boat had managed to get about 100 yards out to sea when it was located and engaged by three machine gun posts above the beach.

Meanwhile, players streak down the edge of the field while being engaged by one or more blockers, making it easy for bodies to fly out of bounds.

One woman, a matrimonial attorney, says that she's determined to find a husband this summer: "Like, I need to be engaged by twenty-nine, because I will not be not married by thirty, because I need to have my kids at thirty-two, then I have to open my own practice".

A second force of 15 German tanks was engaged by two tanks of No 2 Troop, destroying a Panzer III and forcing the remainder to withdraw.

This caused the ship to fall out of line to starboard and she was engaged by six Japanese cruisers at short range.

Her aircraft participated in the IJN's first aerial combat on 5 February when three fighters, escorting two attack aircraft, were engaged by nine Chinese fighters; one Chinese fighter was damaged.

Africaine was the first ship to reinforce Rowley's squadron, but within three days of her arrival in the region was engaged by two French ships while attempting to drive them away from Saint Denis on Île Bourbon.

By 1430 the squadron arrived on a ridge south of Cheux where it was engaged by twenty Panzer IVs, sent by the 12th SS Panzer Division from the Rauray area, Tiger tanks from the 3rd Battalion 101st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion and armour from the 21st Panzer Division.

We then considered that on an average, only one cell receptor could be engaged by one mAb grafted on the particle surface.

Both sites need to be engaged by two Kelch domains of dimeric KEAP1 to appropriately orient NRF2 for ubiquitylation [ 24].