Sentence examples for the only combat from inspiring English sources

Until the weekend, the only combat planes there had been four Flanker air-to-air fighters.

Aside from the opening, the only combat scenes to be found here are strictly domestic, and, in terms of its lead characters, internal.

Under General Williamson, the brigade introduced the use of long-range patrols, and conducted the only combat parachute jump in the war, according to the brigade's history.

As it turned out, the only combat veteran of World War I to become president of the United States would be a National Guard artillery captain from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, not the future Allied supreme commander at D-Day.

"I'll bet the only combat ever seen by the guy who wrote that has been in front of a Nintendo machine," said Mr. Ridge, his credentials as a Bronze Star combat veteran of Vietnam unsullied by the slings and arrows now pelting him from within his own Republican Party.

(Nathan Lee) 'THE LUCKY ONES' (R, 1 53) A bittersweet comedy about three seemingly dissimilar American soldiers who embark on a road trip is the latest in a string of films inspired by the war in Iraq, though aside from the opening, the only combat scenes to be found here are strictly domestic, and, in terms of its lead characters, internal.

"He's the only combat-ineffective dog out here," says his kennel chief, Cpl.

Patton would command the Seventh Army in the Sicily landing during the summer, and the 45th would be the only combat-loaded division coming from the United States.

In fact, by the end of 1942, the only combat-ready battleships in the navy were the three Vittorio Venetos because the fuel shortage had caused the four modernized battleships to be removed from service.

The corps' only combat came in the Korean War.

"The 21,000 are only combat forces, and when the combat forces go in, there are a certain amount of additional forces that are required," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman… Obamaauthorizeded the whole thing.