Sentence examples for ground battle from inspiring English sources

But shooting a large-scale ground battle is virtually impossible.

Among them, 22 died when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed as a ground battle raged.

The intensifying ground battle has also touched off a war of words between the leaders of the competing unions.

Allied war planners hope to degrade the strength of Republican Guard divisions from the air before the ground battle begins.

While tanker planes dropped retardant along the fire's advancing east side, some 700 firefighters waged a ground battle to the west.

It was the largest return of remains from a ground battle in Vietnam since the war ended, said Larry Greer, a spokesman for the Pentagon POW/MIA office.

Both sides called it one of the war's most intense ground battles.

But as bloody ground battles rage throughout the city, rebel control is limited.

The ground battles also include Kurdish militias, who have some foreign backing, and the Islamic State, which does not.

They died in air raids, ground battles, labor camps, and refugee shelters, from beatings, exposure, starvation, and disease.

The scale of the fighting — among the most intense ground battles in Syria's war — has forced Lebanon to contend anew with a perennial problem.