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How to use skirmishing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word skirmishing? Here are some examples.

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They could adopt a new method of combat, that is, fighting in columns and skirmishing.
In addition to skirmishing with German patrols, the group destroyed a bridge north of Graignes to interrupt one German route to the fighting.
But they can expect little sympathy from the anti-globalisation protesters, already skirmishing yesterday with the police in south-west France.
After eleven days of skirmishing and manoeuvre, in which the Romans gradually moved closer to the Seleucid camp, Antiochus was forced to fight.
At age 15, he was travelling Italy with Lazio's infamous Irriducibili hooligans, skirmishing with police and opposing supporters.
After skirmishing with a civilian wagon train on O'Fallon's Creek, they crossed the Yellowstone River two or three days before Christmas.
Azmoth the Clever, a master at leadership and full of cunning, was the scouting and skirmishing army for the One.
In this context, an ideal lawn was less about skirmishing with crabgrass than defending the urban landscape from weeds.
In short, it was to dilapidation what the American Civil War was to skirmishing.
There was some more skirmishing over the details, but finally everyone consented.
Our people seeing this extended in skirmishing order, but a Sioux who could speak French came forward unarmed and explained matters.
But by early summer, Chicago's hotel workers were skirmishing on the job.
They have now had three or four years' experience of this sort of skirmishing.
They didn't come in skirmishing order comparable to the British troops, they came in heavy waves.
This isn't actually scheduled to go to trial until February 14 next year, but in the meanwhile Intergraph seems to be getting the best of the skirmishing.
In the early skirmishing it was Motherwell who were the assured side.
There was now open skirmishing between the Greeks and the Latins.
She leaves the frame, and one of the boys is skirmishing with a football.
It is the old fear of having the troops disperse and become unmanageable, uncontrollable if formed in deployed lines or skirmishing formation.
In districts of southern Serbia along the border with Kosovo, ethnic-Albanian guerrillas have been skirmishing with Serb police.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties.
He places the pans in the sun where the grease will soften and goes skirmishing for ants and doodle bugs.
Our camp was then moved to Maryville where we remained a few days scouting and skirmishing continually.
Desultory skirmishing continued for some time, shots being fired from the hills, half a mile away, as well as from the morcha.
During the day our horse, toward Natchitoches, had some skirmishing.
There was a great deal of skirmishing just before Ulm surrendered, which kept the cavalry pretty fully occupied.
There were long, long days of intrenching, skirmishing and idleness.
There were shrill squeals and screams and bursts of heavier male laughter as the everlasting skirmishing between the young men and girls played on.
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