Sentence examples for fighter circles from inspiring English sources

While quite a few people in Tripoli's fighter circles headed to Iraq to fight as insurgents after the United States-led invasion of the country in 2003, Sheik Mazen Mohammed, a Sunni imam of a mosque in Bab al-Tabbaneh, said that Syria's rebels had as yet not requested assistance beyond arms from their Lebanese supporters.

He watched the fighters circle, boxing with shadows.

Helicopters and jet fighters circled overhead, but dropped no bombs.

As jet fighters circled overheard, one soldier methodically guided a plane to its target.

With betrayal a constant possibility, Resistance fighters circle one another as warily as they stalk the Germans.

Now a ground controller wanted the three strike fighters circling overhead to send a sign — both to the grunts and to any Taliban fighters shadowing them as they walked.

A ban on cars and pedestrians was imposed in the capital and other areas, Iraq's security forces were put on high alert and American jet fighters circled high above the capital throughout the day today.

Rebels later regrouped about 40 miles to the east, in Ras Lanuf, where MiG fighters circled over rebel positions on Monday before launching air strikes behind their front lines in the morning and afternoon.

In short, while leaders in Washington believed that the fighters circling above them had been instructed to "take out" hostile aircraft, the only orders actually conveyed to the pilots were to "ID type and tail".

The fighters circle up, dazed and sweaty.

The two fighters circled each other.