do battle
Example Sentences
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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
Those with great experience on a subject have little to no ability to do battle with the smug, the young and the inexperienced.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025
But as much as I loved seeing young people do battle with oppression, I found myself chasing That Voice: the urgent, conflicted narration of someone thrown too young into the center of a hell-storm.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
All courtesies are left on the start line before the boats do battle, colliding repeatedly as they fight for the best line, and often ruining the best-laid plans.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024
Along with my fellow classmates, I heartily applauded him, cheering Smuts’s call to do battle for the freedom of Europe, forgetting that we did not have that freedom here in our own land.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
