Use "combat" in a sentence

1. The first day he had ever met Kira, she had been wearing a pair of large clown trousers and a combat jacket, hair having been cropped off with scissors in a fit of self-protective misery after being the victim of yet another sexual assault

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2. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress

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3. Compsilura concinnata is a fly that was imported from Europe to combat the gypsy moth

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4. Back at Sagan, the exo-atmospheric infantry combat instructor had said (with a lunar drawl) ‘Successful infantry combat maneuvering does not allow the enemy to acquire your flank or the flank of adjoining units

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5. Boots and combat fatigues

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6. Force during World War II, flying several combat missions in European Theater

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7. How on earth can you combat all that? It all

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8. Fat men in combat trousers and dirty grey trainers

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9. While Kassidorians never use violence on each other, they have no such reluctance when it comes to hand-to-hand combat with other species, so all other species have learned to give humans some respect

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10. Still, hand to hand combat with the wildlife was much more frequent here than any other place he'd heard of

11. In this way, the skin will be able to combat the harmful effects of the damages caused by the

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12. vitamin c is evidently very effective, researchers suggest that it is best to combat factors in increasing skin ageing using multiple antioxidants and not relying on a few that has greater publicity

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13. The antidote was based on limbering up the spine and keeping it supple, bending it this way and that to relieve tired muscles, and putting the feet up above the head to combat the pull and downward drag of gravity

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14. The agency was created after 9/11 to combat the war on terror

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15. Roman looked up at the combat

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16. his eyes nor had the struggles in Ninja’s combat room

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17. This concerns being put under combat rules

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18. “There’s no combat here

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19. Their combat session ended with Heather pushing Roman backward onto

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20. During their brief combat session several weeks earlier, Roman had told

21. motion, creating two weapons to combat the two pieces of board now in Johnson’s

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22. In combat, whoever has the high ground has an

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23. They took a wide berth out of range of the combat,

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24. His helmet, combat armor and weapons lay on the floor next to the chair

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25. It then uses whatever methods it can to combat this danger to you and, therefore, to itself

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26. He was dressed in combat uniform with his rank slide on his chest as opposed to shoulder badges

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27. And having only trained in hand-to-hand combat, he had a supreme advantage over the god; who believed himself more than capable of defeating a child

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28. In combat he had no equal

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29. The many faces of Heron’s disinterest and displeasure would prevail until the lessons ended and he could look forward to joining his father and eldest sister in combat drills just outside the town walls

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30. It included archery, sword fighting, close combat with dagger and spear as well as horse riding skills

31. Not to mention, I have sufficient combat training – more than sufficient

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32. She would have to rely on her speed and small size to get her out of any close combat with a short blade

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33. Helda knew that their appearance was deceptive as they were also well trained in hand-to-hand combat and they were carefully selected for their positions

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34. She couldn’t combat them, but she couldn’t allow them to dominate her,

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35. martial arts, the deadly techniques of hand-to-hand combat

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36. He had dedicated as much time and energy as he could to his combat lessons and to practicing between them

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37. Snake Head resembles the attack of a snake in combat, using an open hand

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38. In combat, the Tai Chi student uses his opponent’s energy against him

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39. It was unbearable, but I didn't have a lot I could combat it with

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40. and starts to step slowly sideways as he prepares to go into hand-to-hand combat with an imaginary opponent

41. “In the combat room?”

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42. The ironclad remained in the area to ensure that the combat took place in international waters

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43. the hip strap, 25 euros, and some combat boots a little too big for me and a knife proved the sum

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44. turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the entire Civil War and ended up in hand-to-hand combat between the two sides

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45. Omega 3 Fatty Acids can actually help combat conditions such as depression, fatigue, joint pain, and even Type 2 diabetes

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46. He served 25 years in the Marine Corps, including two combat tours in Vietnam

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47. Do you have any experience in hand-to-hand combat?” Raven stared at him for a moment, confused by the path the conversation was taking

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48. Even when a soldier in combat throws himself on a grenade, thus committing suicide, he is doing so because he made a rational decision to protect the right of his fellow soldiers over his own

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49. He began to think of how that could be avoided when he asked Carl, “What if the Alit’aren only used the Power to block frontal attacks during combat? Air requires less of the Power, so the risk of the taint would be lowered, and the Alit’aren could increase their skills with the sword to become a legion of blades, buffered by shields formed from teron

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50. TSA is now in the business of confiscating Gerber multi-tools from these returning combat veterans

51. Ah yes, women in the armed services, especially the combat arms

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52. Had to be, because when a ship went into combat maneuvers there

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53. ready to prepare himself for combat maneuvers or another jump

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54. He was sure Larkey was formidable in combat or battling the high seas

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55. “Elves and many other creatures apart from man have found that there can be no symbiosis of good and evil and have taken steps to combat any evilness in their societies

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56. It was late at night and all you could hear was my combat boots hitting that pavement

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57. The cerebral training was combined with combat training, and the organization called their warriors Wizard Hunters, which is often shortened to Hunters

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58. I believed and still do that combat shooting courses offered the most value in practical terms, hence we all enlisted in shooting clubs, or we created our own courses where we could practice—usually at a Reservist’s farm and very unofficial it was too

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59. So few hospital supplies had been unloaded that before July 1st, when the army was buoyed against sickness by the prospect of the combat, the wounded from Guasimas alone overtaxed the hospital facilities

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60. Besides, imperial men tend to underestimate women since most of us don’t study combat

61. We had neither combat helmets nor bullet proof jackets which amazed a former Marine Colonel who found himself attached to us to observe or something

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62. Some camps were next to Lesotho, in the snow, where you were entitled to two glasses of whiskey a day instead of beer (to combat the cold)

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63. Unless trained with if it very thoroughly it was easier to shoot an attacker than to enter into hand to hand combat

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64. I remember at school I was called to the headmasters' office to explain my "communist views" having said in class that the South African Defence Force will not survive two weeks of actual conventional combat against the USSR for the simple reason that they had thousands more tanks and men

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65. The fat politicians simply don't understand the awesome power a modern carrier group has or the rattlesnake ways of the ordinary marine in combat

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66. There were in essence three different combat groups during the war for this was much more than a mere insurgency

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67. These men once made four combat jumps in one day which is unique in warfare

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68. You really should only fire artillery in direct support of troops in actual combat

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69. Though equipped with the much larger C160 Transall and C130 Hercules transportation aircraft than Dakota's (DC3) the paratroopers did not jump even a fraction of what the Rhodesian paratroopers did and never did more than a few combat jumps during the entire war of which the Kasinga attack in 1978 was the largest

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70. Certainly the black Rhodesian African Rifles were paratroopers and did many combat jumps as fireforces but you know the feelings in those days on arming black Africans

71. You will remember that the normal combat tour was limited to a few months up to then

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72. And there, in front of the largest sett ever built, the final Great Battle commenced as the two forces clashed in mortal combat, with only the Prime Mover knowing what the outcome would be

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73. As combat soldiers we never rated the Cubans highly or as real soldiers

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74. I knew that in Berlin there would be no combat because the United States Army had destroyed everything from the air

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75. ARVN troops remained miserable failures, high desertions and a poor combat record in spite of tens of billions spent on them

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76. The Body Count: 15,000 to 24,000 deaths, most from disease rather than combat

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77. These were the atrocities in US history that were not combat, but attempts to exterminate Native tribes by outright massacres:

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78. (For anyone wondering, most “massacres” done by Natives were actually combat defeats of US troops or colonist militias

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79. ” This was a strange claim to make, since Bush was a highly decorated combat pilot during World War II

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80. The big exception was in combat

81. Recruiting within the officer corps for training with the newly formed and highly classified Contra Officers Combat Readiness Training (COCRT), sponsored by the CIA, began even before the Samosa family’s hurried departure

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82. Even if we never did get a shot at the Baron, we could learn a lot about the art of aerial combat

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83. Fewer aircraft would be lost in senseless accidents, and who knows what kind of combat record they might achieve

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84. The avoidance of surprise is a distinct combat advantage

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85. Aerial combat isn’t about ‘jousting in the air

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86. The country suddenly found itself in the whirlwind of America’s ‘War on Drugs’ and in need of additional officers to combat the menace

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87. If a boy, in a prankish mood, angry at being forced to eat his Brussels sprouts, should take one of his sister’s dollies, take its clothes off, and put it with a boy doll, just back from years of combat? And if that boy doll should be in a state…of need…but wait a minute…these are dolls we’re discussing

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88. “What happened, was that four out of six of these machines were shot down on their first combat patrol

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89. Having checked him out; I knew he could fly, and he had in fact been wounded in combat on his third mission flying Camels

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90. Oh, yeah, lots of guys use various drugs or combinations of drugs to combat the pain of their wounds

91. A lot had changed in three years of combat

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92. While the top speed hadn’t increased that much, it made them much handier in air-to-air combat

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93. (For heavy combat, use hot water and a stronger brand of soap

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94. The fact that he got damaged in combat, with his wings shot up, tail shot up, landing gear shot up, and flipped over on landing, hadn’t helped his case

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95. We proved these necessary modifications in combat

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96. In combat, I once observed a plane, looping, and looping, and looping

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97. About all we could do about that, was to fill it up with a third or a quarter of a tank, and, ‘don’t mess around in the combat area

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98. You understand air combat

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99. “They had combat with Dickenson and Wilson’s boys, trying to penetrate on a major bomb party at that big battery near Eparnay

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100. He was shot down in combat, either by Captain Roy Brown, a Canadian in the RAF, or by Australian machine gunners