"battle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was a regular in defence for the remainder of the season but struggled as the team undertook an ultimately fruitless battle against relegation.
- After several hours of fruitless battle, they tried setting fire to the works, but this was frustrated by a torrential downpour that ended the battle.
- It would be, I suspected, a fruitless battle to try to make them see that an assumption that was valid in their case need not extend its validity into the human race.
- He went through a long, fruitless battle to take his name off.
- The Spider sabotaged the Nebula Rod that the Soldiers had built to stop the Nebula Man and sent the team off to fight a fruitless battle.
- None of the fruitless battle he had thought to offer.
- He had wasted too many of them in a fruitless battle, throwing them against prepared positions to be slaughtered.
- Not even in the first fruitless battles of the invasion had he seen so many men die for so little effect.
- She made Gupta boil every drop of water they used, and tried to convince her patients to do the same, but it was a fruitless battle.
- Probably even hedonism has more going for it than the totally fruitless and expensive battle against time.
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