skirmish

Example Sentences

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The Angels are frustrated by all of this, and in particular by what they consider the curiously timed skirmishes over their 21-year-old Los Angeles name.

From Los Angeles Times

The Jan. 29 meeting was a byproduct of a legal skirmish between the Fed and the Justice Department.

From Barron's

Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal

By February 1862, more than two thousand soldiers had been killed, and roughly a hundred thousand had been wounded in dozens of minor skirmishes and major battles.

From Literature

To an outsider, the situation in Oxford might seem like a classic local skirmish between angry residents and their council.

From BBC