How to Use battlefield in a Sentence

battlefield

noun
  • Hundreds of dead soldiers lay on the battlefield.
  • Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield.
    — Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Your mind may feel like a battlefield!
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • The myth, of course, ends on the battlefield.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 May 2026
  • But those tanks remain weeks or months away from the battlefield.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But they’re used to an older style of war, fought on open battlefields.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026
  • The soil of the battlefield coats their uniforms, fills their lungs, clogs their guns.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Iran’s response has been to widen the battlefield.
    — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The term of art for this sort of battlefield confusion is fog of war.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
  • He was killed on his first day of battlefield action in Bosnia.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And then there is model stealing—a battlefield all of its own.
    — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • At least some of the people who ran those trainings are now back on the battlefield.
    — Sam Skove, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Two kinds of missiles are in hot demand on the battlefield.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Give us a sense of what's happening right now on the battlefield.
    — NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • When networks go dark, the impact does not stay on a battlefield.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The battlefield now begins long before the first shot is fired.
    — Marc Andersen, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • And in some parts of the battlefield, the Ukrainians have made gains.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Now, despite setbacks on the battlefield, the state of the soup was strong.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
  • This flow could change depending on the progress on the battlefield.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 30 June 2022
  • The war, of course, carried on, both on the battlefield and online.
    — Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The battlefield has shifted, and our old weapons are firing blanks.
    — Camellia Chan, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • The movie’s climax comes in the courtroom, not on the battlefield.
    — Sam Sweeney, National Review, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The battlefield has moved from the courthouse to the inbox.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Stretch the battlefield across the region.
    — Kazem Kazerounian, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
  • On the battlefield, the gunner lines up an enemy tank in his sights and then fires.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The delay gave Russia time to make up ground on the battlefield.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 June 2024
  • At the same time, Russia is playing the long game on the battlefield.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • The true value of Soledar's capture may not be on the battlefield.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Moscow has also claimed progress on the battlefield.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026

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