Sentence examples for heavy battles from inspiring English sources

Some 2,000 marines have focused on the area for the past two months and have engaged in heavy battles with air support.

On Friday, government forces marching from the north and south broke into Elephant Pass and fought heavy battles with the rebels, the military said.

The fighting started in the early hours Thursday when a unit of Saqqaf's police special forces stormed the airport grounds, sparking heavy battles with pro-Hadi forces.

Nawaz Khan, a mid-level anti-Taliban commander, said heavy battles continued even on Monday, including one that yielded an Arab prisoner who claimed to have seen Mr. bin Laden in Tora Bora on Thursday.

"Heavy battles are being fought for every house, most of which the rebels have turned into fortresses," Bislan Gantamirov, the leader of a paramilitary Chechen group allied with Moscow, told the Itar-Tass news agency.

The Nato announcement came as the Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, fought heavy battles against rebel groups in the Assad regime's heartland for control of a hilltop in Jub al Ahmar, a highland area in Latakia province which, if captured, would allow the army more effectively to pound rebel positions from the Ghab Plain.

He described one incident, after a "heavy battle" near Cheux, west of Caen.

Along with heavy battle casualties, men collapsed under the midday sun.

To these the Franks added the heavy battle-axe, or francisca, useful for both hacking and throwing.

The United States and Japan converted heavy battle cruisers just under construction into the USS Lexington and Saratoga and the Japanese Akagi and Kaga.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and saw heavy battle in the South Pacific during WW II.