1. The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.

2. They were involved in a skirmish with rival fans.

3. He was killed in a border skirmish.

4. There was a short skirmish between the political party leaders when the government announced it was to raise taxes.

5. Bates was sent off after a skirmish with the referee.

6. There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.

7. Rival fans were involved in a skirmish in Kilburn High Road when windows and the interior of a pub were damaged.

8. They waged a battle, and we waged a skirmish, and they won.

9. Three men died in a skirmish with armored personnel carriers.

10. They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces, but in the circumstances that would be of little profit.

11. The drug war is a skirmish, the leftist gangs an irritant.

12. My first little skirmish took place over a film,[] one about rape.

13. But what began in May 1998 as a skirmish over a remote stretch of border exposed a deep reservoir of bitterness.

14. He did not hesitate to skirmish with the Confederates now, for his position was a strong one.

15. This was the first tiny skirmish in what was to be a major battle.

16. Its skirmish with the regulators, however, is just one of the Board of Trade's problems these days.

17. In the ensuing skirmish, bullets struck Richard Baxter's door and windows until midnight when the fighting stopped.

18. The skirmish grew into a major battle.

19. He was shot in a skirmish with the enemy.

20. Everybody but Toby enters into this skirmish.

21. The skirmish between the Palestine liberation organization and Israel.

22. A minor skirmish ensued as people fought over supplies.

23. A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

24. This skirmish sparked a major battle.

25. Government soldiers ran into a group of rebels, and a skirmish followed.

26. He had finished fourth in the opening race after a skirmish with Aussie Anthony Gobert.

27. He talks of regrouping like a colonel after a skirmish at Yellow Tavern.

28. Not a bad game in the circumstances but just a preliminary skirmish in World Cup terms.

29. They meet the enemy in a fire fight, a fair skirmish.

30. A day before the event in Niagara Falls, Semaphore lost a last-ditch skirmish in court.

1. The young soldier was killed in a skirmish with government troops.

31. This was a only petty , front - line skirmish.

32. Go out of the barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on.

33. The verbal skirmish is viewed as the opening round in negotiation schedules to start next Tuesday.

34. So a skirmish could escalate into a war of mutual survival.

35. But it will not be. They will drive them out of Georgia in one skirmish.

36. The North Korean ship was seriously damaged in the skirmish while the South Korean ship was unscathed, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said.

36. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

37. She confessed that she had directed an attack, called in French a skirmish, before Paris.

38. You play like a lame camel. I am the skirmish master.

39. " There'll be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.

40. Guatemala was the first skirmish of the cold war in Latin America.

41. With Baidu assured of nothing from the government, and Google fading from view, Baidu is now fighting Alibaba and Tencent in a three-way skirmish to be China's preeminent Internet company.

42. Under regular circumstances these wouldn't be fouls but after a skirmish we wanted to regain control.

43. The skirmish is thought to be the first exchange of fire between a passenger vessel and attackers since the start of the current wave of piracy off the Horn of Africa.

44. Last November's election was a skirmish - hardly even a battle, still less a war.

45. The propensity for tuxedoed birds to enact something like a gay marriage has since provided a memorable skirmish in the culture wars.

46. For us it was a war...for them it was a border skirmish...the problem nowadays is that we constantly get high on the patriotic jingoism created by our beloved media that we barely realize our weaknesses.

47. We won a skirmish, and we'll win him some more.

48. A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames yesterday after a skirmish with a South Korean vessel – the first naval clash between the two nations in seven years.

49. When I got to the old Sullivan place there'd already been a skirmish with the Yankees.

50. Surviving Abyssins defeated in the skirmish are usually assimilated into the victorious tribe.

51. Not being used to such a collectivist set-up, Apple refused to pay up, which triggered the first big legal skirmish over smart-phones.