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small war
noun as in limited war
Weak match
Example Sentences
In short, this one facility had all you would need for a small war.
Bundy offered his own view: “My five-second reaction is to have the small war but not today.”
The day following found the small war-party advancing cautiously, preceded far in advance on its flanks by watchful scouts.
They captured supply ships and transports, harassed commerce, captured many small war vessels, and protected trading vessels.
During the year it was constantly engaged in commerce destroying, and in capturing transports and small war craft.
The Mobilians are fortifying themselves as best they can, and seem, not unadvisedly, jealous of gun-boats and small war-steamers.
The Mobilians are fortifying themselves as best they can, and seem, not unadvisedly, jealous of gunboats and small war steamers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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