"brief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After a brief skirmish, the two forces raced toward the ford.
- I was surprised but pleased by how little human blood had been spilled in the brief skirmish.
- But except for a brief skirmish between the police and workers near the hotel entrance, nothing happened.
- After a brief skirmish, they withdrew, leaving two of their number dead.
- The militia was forced to retreat after a very brief skirmish.
- I fought a brief skirmish in my mind, and, as usual, common sense lost.
- A brief skirmish, a few deaths, and the American public will be screaming for a withdrawal.
- Neither, certainly, had been the two brief skirmishes with bandits.
- Their fight had been, after all, only the first, brief skirmish in a long, long war.
- There is very little combat to be seen beyond brief skirmishes between bands of soldiers.
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