A minor short-term fight.
Military or paramilitary conflict, attack, fight or shooting that is shorter in scope or duration than a typical battle.
1 So far as he is concerned, that is just an opening skirmish .
2 Early reports said there was a skirmish and Prince Charles fell awkwardly.
3 Dennis Skinner sees everything as a skirmish in the great class war.
4 The machine had won the opening skirmish in the railroad regulation controversy.
5 Today we lose as many in a skirmish in the Polish marshes.
6 Poor Sempland had been captured in an obscure skirmish late in 1861.
7 At the close of the skirmish which ensued, General Davidson was killed.
8 The demand was insatiable because every skirmish among enemies ended in fire.
9 Regular interval in skirmish line ½ pace = 1 yard per man.
10 So the Jackson boys had luck with them in their first skirmish .
11 Haller picked up the reading at the point the skirmish had ended.
12 Here is the check, and she began to skirmish in her purse.
13 But Patten had won in the initial skirmish with old man Death.
14 That was a three-day slugfest, made Hope look like a minor skirmish .
15 On they tear again, the whole body pushing on in skirmish - like dispersion.
16 A brisk skirmish ensued, several were killed, and the patrol driven in.
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Skirmish в диалектах
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