Meanings of indecisive battle in English

After fighting an indecisive battle he retired to his capital Sardis.

He withdrew, and Bolívar followed him, fighting an indecisive battle.

The poet represented Attila's defeat on the Catalaunian Plain as an honourable but indecisive battle.

In an indecisive battle, he wins who can show, and merely show, battalions and squadrons in hand.

Enough nitrogen was thrown away in some indecisive battle on the Aisne to save India from a famine.

An attack on Damascus led to a terrible but indecisive battle, Benhadad, King of Syria, proving himself fully a match for the invader.

Mar encountered the royal forces at Sheriffmuir, in Perthsire, Scotland (1715), where an indecisive battle was fought, which the old ballad thus describes:

After several indecisive battles between the forces of the rival competitors, Octavius proposed to Antony and Lepidus a reconciliation.

After indecisive battles sometimes both sides set up trophies; in that case a second battle is likely to settle the question.

It was one of the great indecisive battles of the world, it being necessary to fight it over again every year.

Both armies, worn out with indecisive battles, gladly hailed Hector's proposal that a combat between Paris and Menelaus should decide the war.