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Example sentences for "desperate fight"

  • A desperate fight followed, in which three soldiers were killed and about twenty wounded.

  • After a desperate fight, he was forced to surrender.

  • There was the rattle of cudgels, savage yells seemed to be bellowed in his ears, and he felt himself thrust and struck and hauled here and there as a desperate fight went on for his possession.

  • There must have been a desperate fight in the night, Pete," cried Nic.

  • At Ridgefield a desperate fight ensued, in which Arnold had two horses killed under him.

  • At sundown, after a desperate fight of seven hours' duration, the British withdrew out of range, intending to renew the struggle in the morning.

  • In this opinion he was probably right, since even as it was he held his own, in a desperate fight, for two hours, until darkness put an end to the struggle.

  • On reaching Centre Street they found a desperate fight going on, and immediately rushed in, to put a stop to it.

  • As they thus stood savagely at bay, a collision seemed inevitable, and had they been attacked, would doubtless have made a desperate fight.

  • The soldiers fired into them, but they boldly held their ground, and were evidently bent on a desperate fight.

  • This done, Lolonois, with his followers, advanced immediately to the fort, and after a desperate fight of nearly three hours completely mastered it, without any other arms than swords and pistols.

  • He must have commanded a goodly fleet, for while Christopher Columbus was with him he took four large Venetian galleys, after a desperate fight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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