Blade relaxed his unarmed combat stance but didn't sit down.

Oberon eased his feet apart into a good combat stance, ready for instant action.

A white man, in combat stance, was facing him, pointing a gun directly at him.

Only Blade was left in his combat stance by the door.

Edward was on the ground in a combat stance, gun out.

The gunman met them and crouched down, assuming "a combat stance," the official said.

In a combat stance, he hunkered behind a retaining wall of a house.

Ree settled into a combat stance ready to bring either of them down.

He threw his half-full glass at the leader, and took up a combat stance, ready to defend himself.

He was standing in combat stance one moment, a blur the next.