How to Use counteroffensive in a Sentence

counteroffensive

noun
  • They mounted a counteroffensive against the enemy.
  • Kyiv’s ground forces had run out of steam in their southern counteroffensive.
    — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Last year’s Ukrainian counteroffensive did not achieve its aims.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Ahead of the Kharkiv counteroffensive, the order was to watch and save up targets.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Right now, Ukrainian troops are in the early stages of a counteroffensive.
    — ABC News, 11 July 2023
  • Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive has been months in the making.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Since then Israel has launched a mass counteroffensive in Gaza.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Since Israel has launched a mass counteroffensive in Gaza.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Ukraine claimed bold strikes on Russians in the south in a sign of a possible counteroffensive.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Interest in mounting such a counteroffensive has been building on the right of late.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Kyiv has launched a counteroffensive in both regions, and officials claim to have made modest gains.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The Ukrainians went on the counteroffensive, but in a limited way.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Russia has lost ground in the nearly seven weeks since Ukraine’s armed forces opened their southern counteroffensive.
    — Yesica Fisch, Leo Correa, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In response, Israel launched a mass counteroffensive in Gaza.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Kyiv’s forces, in a lightning counteroffensive in recent days, have taken back control of a large swath of the country’s northeast.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Allies had been caught by surprise by the German counteroffensive.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The attack comes as Kyiv made some gains in the eastern Donetsk region in its counteroffensive.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • The initial Arab advance is met with a strong Israeli counteroffensive.
    — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Americans were deeply involved in helping Ukraine plan for a counteroffensive in the south.
    — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • After the counteroffensive, those forces had retreated to about 34 miles away from the city, the official added.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In recent months, as part of a vast counteroffensive, the army and militias allied with it have gradually reclaimed much of the north and east of the city.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But the weapons will arrive amid tension between Ukrainian resolve and the human toll of a slow counteroffensive.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But Moscow was ready for the most recent counteroffensive, which was telegraphed for months in advance in media outlets across the world.
    — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The attack on Kirkuk was part of an Islamic State counteroffensive.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The dilemma grows more urgent by the day as a trio of Ukrainian brigades continues its aggressive counteroffensive in the south.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The Kherson region is one of two where Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive against the Russians.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But the last counteroffensive in the south so far brought little gains in more than five months, serving as the biggest proof the war has changed since Ukraine's early success.
    — Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • This counteroffensive has caused a large number of Russian forces around Kharkiv to retreat, though the area continues to face heavy shelling.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Ukraine is counting on the heat of late spring and summer to dry the ground into firm pavement — ideal for the heavy tanks and artillery pieces that will be central to the counteroffensive.
    — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The attacks on both sides came as Russia has lost ground in the nearly seven weeks since Ukraine’s armed forces opened their southern counteroffensive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022

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