do battle with
Example Sentences
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We wanted to peel back these contradictory layers — he wants to be pure but he has an egoic need for public glory — and show these things do battle with each other inside him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Putting together the roster that will take aim at the first national championship in Red Raiders history, McGuire drew almost exclusively from the high-school programs he used to do battle with at Cedar Hill.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
"We will have to do battle with A23a for sure," says Andrew Newman from Argos Froyanes.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
“Generations are horoscopes,” Bump writes, “cross-generational perceptions are not necessarily accurate” and the millennials are coming to do battle with the robots.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023
Andrew asked, walking to the stove and shivering, dressed to do battle with the snow drifts.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
