Sentence examples for opening battle from inspiring English sources

In the opening battle, the gore-drenched messenger writhes up through the slit cloth.

After a stirring opening battle, however, the fights in "True Legend" become pretty routine.

From the opening battle against the Gauls, it's a gritty affair, cruel, exciting, magnificently staged.

It was the girls' equivalent of the opening battle in Saving Private Ryan.

It was shot in West Germany, with a local farm providing the setting for the harrowing opening battle sequence.

It was in this wood that Ridley Scott filmed the opening battle scenes for the film Gladiator.

The first museum devoted to the country's earliest years opens Wednesday, the anniversary of the opening battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord and "the shot heard round the world" on April 19 , 1775

He earned a Silver Star for valor in the 1991 Gulf War when his armor company destroyed a much larger Iraqi formation in one of the opening battles.

These clashes were the opening battles in the sectional political struggle that led, a dozen years after Polk left office, to the Civil War.

The holiday, called Patriots' Day — or Patriot's Day, as some would have it — was originally intended to commemorate the opening battles of the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord in 1775.

With the audience seated on two sides of a tunnel-like, traverse stage, it has the great virtue of immediacy: we seem to be in the thick of the rain-soaked, mud-spattered opening battles.