pitched battle

How To Use pitched battle In A Sentence

• Telfer's accounts of this and other pitched battles with ‘myalls’ might be dismissed by the sceptic as unsupported hearsay.
• In the popular press, Cohen notes, seaside towns were being destroyed by warring gangs, with property getting trashed willy-nilly and pitched battles being fought in the street.
• His robots fight among themselves most realistically, and his crowning achievement is a pitched battle on an underground road, believable enough to induce cringes and curled fists.
• Whether for small colonial wars or large pitched battles, the machinegun was a game changer. Times, Sunday Times
• I had expected rage, flying pupusas, a pitched battle.
• He stepped off the high-heeled cothurnus, and came down into common life; he held out his great hearty arms, and embraced us all; he had a bow for all women; a kiss for all children; a shake of the hand for all men, high or low; he showed us Heaven’s sun shining every day on quiet homes; not gilded palace roofs only, or court processions, or heroic warriors fighting for princesses and pitched battles. On Charity and Humor
• Conservationists fought a pitched battle with developers over the future of the site.
• In what was initially a pitched battle between two meaty packs, the smallest man on the pitch stood out a mile. Times, Sunday Times
• It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
• Though relations between his camp and that of his brother, David, in pitched battle with each other, had become increasingly tense, the younger Miliband rang the former work and pensions secretary James Purnell – a friend, yes, but much closer to David than to him – to ask him for advice. Ed Miliband leadership: 'Red Ed' yearns to put forward his centrist vision