Synonyms

1. encounter
2. brush
3. clash

Sentence Examples

1. They were laughing, joking, some singing, many cleaning their weapons as they spoke of the recent skirmish, boasting of their exploits as the tension of the battle gradually subsided.
2. He knew the skirmish in the street had been witnessed by a lot of people.
3. While the former surveyed the ruins, both internally and externally, with the curiosity of one whose recollections were reviving at each moment, Chingachgook related to his son, in the language of the Delawares, and with the pride of a conqueror, the brief history of the skirmish which had been fought, in his youth, in that secluded spot.
4. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen and though he answered like a pagan, and one without the knowledge of the true God, yet, as far as sparing our feelings is concerned, he was right for suppose you are killed in the first engagement or skirmish, whether by a cannon ball or blown up by mine, what matters it?
5. Then they began to move and execute a kind of skirmish upon the calm water, while a vast number of horsemen on fine horses and in showy liveries, issuing from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat similar movement.
6. Forced to keep their distance from the danger of the rut, the Alfar watched from afar, stunned at the occasional skirmish between bulls.
7. For the first time since the skirmish outside the Ark, she thought of the protests Manuel had promised.
8. There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of La Jeune Amélie.
9. Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.
10. The skirmish fire increased to a long clattering sound.