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Six example sentences with combat, each labelled with its topic.
Veterans of the Somme described weeks of waiting broken by a few hours of close combat in the mud.
History
The director staged the whole aerial combat with model planes on wires, and audiences still find it convincing.
Movies
The strategy title rewards patience: scouting a ridge for ten minutes usually beats rushing into combat unprepared.
Gaming
The novel's combat scenes are brief and confusing on purpose, since the narrator never knows which way the line has moved.
Literature
The museum's combat paintings favor the moment before the charge, when every horse is still and the smoke has not risen.
Art
Flight simulators rehearse combat without a single live round, so pilots practice the worst hour of their careers on a screen.
Technology
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