Sentence examples for engaged the enemy from inspiring English sources
In brilliant sunshine on Sunday, June 1, Howe engaged the enemy.
In April 1966 ZANU engaged the enemy in what has become known as the Battle of Sinoia.
In total, some 9,500 sailors manned more than 200 vessels, but they were mostly small coastal forces that never engaged the enemy.
About 2 p.m., the thin blue line advanced through a dense wood, engaged the enemy, and drove them back more than half a mile.
The British commanders declined to say whether their troops had yet engaged the enemy, but said that so far they had suffered no casualties.
True, drones cannot engage in air-to-air combat, but Colonel Brenton said that "the amount of time I've engaged the enemy in air-to-ground combat has been significant" in both Reapers and F-16s.
Restrictive rules of engagement have left Marines and soldiers reluctant to engage the enemy, sapping battlefield morale, West writes.
Finally HMS Thunderer under Albemarle Bertie took no part in the initial action at all, standing well away from the British line and failing to engage the enemy despite the signal for close engagement hanging limply from her mainmast.
Colonel Tittle, the Florida National Guard spokesman, said of the unit, "Their job was to engage the enemy".
