(v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
(v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.
(v. i.) A slight contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) This we can see writ large in the prime minister’s skirmishes with Philip Hammond , the only member of government visibly considering the national interest.
(2) Manouras added: We will only know once the coroner has conducted an autopsy, but what I can say is that there were no police or skirmishes at the spot at which he died.
(3) But decades of struggle and skirmishes with neighbours have resulted in a tightly guarded border, and they were soon captured by men in uniform.
(4) On Wembley Way the party atmosphere had been briefly punctuated by a skirmish between rival fans.
(5) Benghazi's special forces, who declared support for Haftar, have skirmished with the militias he is targeting but the general himself has not yet been inside the city.
(6) But the confrontation quickly escalated into a series of skirmishes as the two sides played a deadly cat and mouse game in the centre of the city.
(7) On the face of it, this was little more than a skirmish in a town on Mali's north-east confines.
(8) For the UN negotiators in Qatar, this year's talks are just the skirmishes before the key date of 2015, when a new global agreement must be achieved.
(9) But Panorama's North Korea film, due to be broadcast on Monday, presents a challenge of a different order to the skirmish earlier last week about playing a song on the charts that could be taken as disrespectful to Lady Thatcher.
(10) No, I see it as being the right opportunity at the right time,” says a man desperate to break Wearside’s perennial relegation skirmishes.
(11) That interpretation was then corroborated by Labour MPs, who either hadn’t read the document or saw it as a handy weapon in skirmishes for control of the party’s election message.
(12) 4.08pm: Below the line, baerchen is upbeat : "Having watched England's superstar striker give the ball away umpty-nine times against Man City last night with some of the clumsiest touches seen since my brief skirmish with a girl from Hackenthorpe in 1971, they might as well give the job to Charles Chimp for all the difference it will make.
(13) It is the latest skirmish in the bitter infighting that has befallen Ukip since the election in which the party won 4 million votes but just one parliamentary seat.
(14) While the skirmish between Chris Christie and Paul over terrorism and its prevention via surveillance got a lot of media attention this week , it's more helpful to look at the general trend among potential candidates.
(15) Police fired volleys of tear gas canisters into a crowd of thousands - people in office clothes as well as youths in masks who had fought skirmishes throughout the day - scattering them into side streets and nearby hotels.
(16) When TV cameras start filming skirmishes in the crowd, Trump argues their focus on the protesters is evidence of liberal media bias.
(17) This rapidly escalating skirmish in American culture wars came after the Department of Justice sued North Carolina for a state law that forced people to only use public bathrooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates.
(18) In Tripoli, fighters from the GNC’s militia force, Libya Dawn , have turned on each other in several nights of skirmishing, even as pro-Tobruk forces battle Libya Dawn for control of the coastal highway west of the city.
(19) Skirmishes have flared outside Iraqi’s second largest city over the last few days with an airstrike on one of its main bridges on Sunday.
(20) It's the first battle cry in the pair's hair-raising physical and mental skirmish and has become something approaching a catchphrase.
Tussle
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
(n.) A struggle; a scuffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(2) Europe's climate chief insisted on Monday that tougher greenhouse gas targets would improve the EU's economic performance, rather than push businesses overseas, as companies and green campaigners tussled over whether current emissions goals were too weak.
(3) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(4) Balotelli, another substitute, had to be restrained later by some quick-thinking supporters as he tussled with Chris Smalling by the touchline.
(5) It is a tale of two shows in the tussle to be named best male performance in a comedy with The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade and Chris O'Dowd up against Mathew Baynton and James Corden from The Wrong Mans (BBC2).
(6) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
(7) The status of APD has been the focus of repeated tussles in the debate over Scotland's constitutional future, since the duty could be cut or abolished in Scotland if more powers were devolved to the Holyrood parliament while remaining in the UK.
(8) Unlike many of his fellow contenders, Rubio has mostly ignored the Trump show – a move that has spared him the sort of public confrontations that have thus far borne little fruit for candidates who’ve tussled with the Republican frontrunner, such as Jeb Bush and Rand Paul.
(9) And now we're in the endgame: a tussle between the parliament and the ministers over the final shape of the new CFP.
(10) The Coalition and the Greens are locked in a procedural tussle with Labor in the Senate to bring on the commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016 .
(11) 36 mins: After a tussle with Nesta, Del Piero goes off for treatment to a cut eye.
(12) In signs of a tussle at the top of government the treasury chief secretary, Liam Byrne, said Mandelson had corrected himself over his claim that there would certainly not be a spending review this side of the election.
(13) Despite recent legal tussles involving Dick Clark Productions – including a running dispute over who has the rights to the Golden Globe awards – Clark's personal integrity has been "untarnished" over the years, Katz said.
(14) Consider the tussle as a head-to-head confrontation in the Olympic velodrome: somebody will win, somebody will be eliminated.
(15) Government sources said that the treasury is gearing up for a protracted tussle with ministers and backbenchers as the Budget approaches.
(16) Then came his latest bite into infamy as he tussled with Ivanovic in front of the Kop goal and redemption in the form of his 30th goal of the season.
(17) No more cover tussle because there is just so much of it.
(18) Jonathan Walters, whose new two-and-a-half-year contract was confirmed before the match, had his back to goal but as he tussled with Kurt Zouma the ball popped out to Arnautovic.
(19) Behind the voters’ defiance of Netanyahu – who is reported to believe the move will damage Israel – is a tussle between his and Bennett’s party to win over rightwing voters.
(20) The project remains at the center of a major legal tussle and has so far been granted only a partial environmental license under which full construction cannot begin.