How to Use battle line in a Sentence

battle line

noun
Definition of battle linenext
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  • If the characters from the studio’s 100-plus feature films had to fight a war based on the battle lines shown above, who would win?
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • By the time Taylor stepped down from the bus, their battle lines had seared in the grass.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Over the course of the next month, his team changed position with the battle lines.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Which means the battle lines are now to be fought over what’s in the rearview mirror, not in what comes next.
    — Time, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
    — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • With four months to go until the March primaries, the battle lines have been set.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Each award was a shot across the battle line between the two Hollywoods.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Plus Democrats draw battle lines over health care in new campaign dust-up.
    — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 16 July 2019
  • It’s early, things are fluid and battle lines have yet to be drawn.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2019
  • As the impeachment battle lines have been drawn, Jones has tried to cast himself as above the fray.
    — Kim Chandler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • But as with many a fight over H20, the battle lines were drawn over cities versus farms and who is willing to pay for it.
    — latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The location of the pit also fits with the battle lines from the second battle.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • The battle lines in the Senate over Judge Kavanaugh are still emerging.
    — Byron Tau, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • In recent days it's reached beyond the battle lines with drone strikes on Crimea and Moscow.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023
  • There were distinct battle lines drawn across the East Village.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The battle lines seem drawn between the joys of weird science (which the techies cherish) and those who fear consumers will run from that.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The battle lines were drawn long ago, in most cases well before Trump even took office.
    — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The speaker needs to realize, and also all the members of his caucus need to know, is that the battle lines have been drawn.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • This was a typical battle line for the housing debate more than a decade ago.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the battle lines are also being drawn for the fall election.
    — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2018
  • If nothing else, some say, the new laws clarify the battle lines over free speech in ways that might prove productive in the long run.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Either way, the battle lines have been drawn — and there’s been fighting on multiple fronts.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • But with City Council members set to vote Thursday on changes to the ordinance, the battle lines over the law haven’t shifted.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • With less than five months to election day, the campaign battle lines are becoming more stark.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • And redistricting fights will be key to shaping the battle lines.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In a war in which the battle lines have moved little in the past year, any kernel of information can provide an edge.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
  • On the ground, battle lines can be drawn, delineating zones of conflict.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • In recent weeks, the battle lines have changed little, with both sides dug in and shelling each other in the southern reaches of the capital.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The battle lines were bright and clear—and incredibly porous.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 20 July 2019
  • Ahead of the settlement, the primary battle line in the case was a prenuptial agreement signed when the couple married in 1996.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2021

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