Sentence examples for they were battle from inspiring English sources

"They were polemical, they were political, they were battle tracts".

Meanwhile, Waterloo grew rich on tourism: an English visitor, Michael Egerton, described how locals spotting foreigners "would feign an anxious and diligent search on the ground" before triumphantly producing buttons and other scraps and insisting they were battle relics.

Yesterday again, they were battle cries.

They were battle cries when I needed to fight, they were exclamations of joy in happy times, they were tender words when I was wounded, and they saved my life.

"We didn't want to throw them into the fire before they were battle ready". The Vanguard offense lurched into battle after being retired in order the first two innings by freshmen Kenny Curriel.

They were battle-hardened nomads who had come to look blessed in a competition often dismissed as a dumping ground.

"My guys slogged through the trenches, and by the time they got to be national leaders they had put their reputations on the line, they had lived through campaigns, they were battle-hardened veterans.

Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the incoming majority leader who as head of the Senate Republican campaign effort recruited both of the soon-to-be senators, said the fact that they were battle-tested figured into his thinking.

But department officials said they were battling their own success.

They were battling to save Hinduism from bigots and charlatans.

Firefighters said that they were battling a "significant fire".