Some 70,000 Union soldiers and 50,000 Confederates engaged in excruciating face-to-face combat.

He fought better on foot; proficient as a mounted knight, his real talent was face-to-face combat with a sword.

I doubted that the six of us could take even one of them in a face-to-face combat.

"Perhaps," replied Dougal, "but it has its deficiencies in face-to-face combat."

There's no actual sweaty, bloody, face-to-face combat situations.

Fractured skulls unearthed at the site suggest face-to-face combat, possibly between warring tribes.

According to this interpretation of the scriptures, face-to-face combat is highly meritorious and fighters who die in battle go to heaven.

"But it troubles me that I must kill him without the honor of face-to-face combat."

Dax might not have been winning their face-to-face combat, but she'd certainly managed to press the Klingon warrior to his limits.

"He was not killed in face-to-face combat," said Traut-Admiral.