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"Combat" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Combat soldiers during peaceful moments like to reminisce of their halcyon days.
He was sent into combat.
In real combat, you must not forget that hesitation is a very dangerous thing.
Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.
There's nothing like close combat to test one's mettle.
Our ancestors developed massive jaws as a result of constant combat.
Tom died in combat.
Prepare for combat.
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.
Each person must give a hand to combat the problem of poverty.
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"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
President Donald Trump’s administration has made combating what it considers anti-Israel and antisemitic movements on college campuses a priority. He signed an executive order during his second week in office to “combat antisemitism” in schools and on university campuses, and on February 3 announced the creation of a multiagency task force to carry out the mandate.
To combat with a blind man I disdain.
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