Sentence examples for nearest battlefield from inspiring English sources

The nearest battlefield is at Gettysburg," said the waitress.

Johnson knows that his idol would scamper to the nearest battlefield for a telegram opportunity, a habit that began with his stunts alongside the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.

It ripped the roof off Wilson's Creek Baptist Church near Battlefield, Mo., as 35 parishioners huddled in the basement praying and singing, "I've got peace like a river".

Portable photographic studios set up near battlefields did a landslide business.

Biofuels can in theory be produced wherever the raw materials, like plants, are available, and could ultimately be made near battlefields.

Like the C-130 it can fly very slowly and land on rough airstrips near the battlefield, yet it also comes close to the speed of the jet-engined C-17 and exceeds its range.

But after four months, "nobody had been anywhere near a battlefield nor seen a Stealth anything, not even close," MacFarquhar writes.

She and her husband had a farm near the battlefield.

Throughout the Second World War, the dead were sometimes buried in temporary cemeteries near the battlefield.

I can assure you we're not going to be near the battlefield again.

Residents near the battlefield said the fighters had fled to Afghanistan.