Sentence examples for skirmish at from inspiring English sources

There's an unseemly skirmish at the British Library.

Wounded in a skirmish at Lussac-les-Châteaux Lussac-les-Châteaux Lussac-les-Châteaux.

In a skirmish at Morristown, two of Lane's men and seven Confederates were killed.

And yet a few weeks later, following a fierce skirmish at Williamsburg, Rains suppressed his earlier qualms.

The Yorkists were successful at Blore Heath (September 23) but were scattered after a skirmish at Ludford Bridge (October 12).

Business transactions resemble mating rituals, and sexual encounters are as erotic as watching traders skirmish at the Stock Exchange.

There just won't be any skirmishes at a gala in New York this year.

Viewers yearned to get away from the home front and back to the office skirmishes at his agency, Sterling Cooper.

Not only are such skirmishes at sea inevitable, but they are also of minor consequence — assuming they are managed shrewdly.

And as Greider acknowledges, the shareholder revolts against Wall Street's priorities "are mostly isolated skirmishes at present".

Crossed swords identify battles and skirmishes at Bethel, Bull Run, Acquia Creek, Centreville and elsewhere; the absence of later engagements indicates that he finished the map in late July of 1861.