6 sentences with 'clashed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clashed and other words derived from it.
• « However, they also clashed with each other, and the Ptolemies and Seleucids became particularly bitter rivals, frequently fighting over the territories that divided their empires. »
• « The Bolshevik "Red Army" clashed with the counter-revolutionary "Whites" throughout western Russia and the Ukraine. For their part, the Whites were an ungainly coalition of former tsars, liberals who had been alienated by the Bolshevik takeover of the Duma (Russian representative assembly), members of ethnic minorities who wanted political independence, an anarchist peasant army in the Ukraine, and troops sent by foreign powers (including the United States) terrified at the prospect of a communist revolution in a nation as large and potentially powerful as Russia. »
• « The American and Soviet navies clashed in the Atlantic as frantic diplomacy sought to end the crisis. After thirteen days of panic, both sides agreed to withdraw their missiles, but not before an incident in which a Soviet submarine nearly launched nuclear torpedoes at a US ship. A single Soviet officer - Vasili Arkhipov - called off the attack that could have led directly to nuclear war. »
• « The troops of the Peruvian viceroy, under the command of the American Juan Manuel Goyeneche, reached an agreement (armistice) with those of Buenos Aires to interrupt the fighting for 40 days. When the deadline was about to expire, the two armies clashed again and Goyeneche managed to win on 20 June 1811 in the battle of Huaqui or the Desaguadero River. »
• « The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 was only part of a larger but undeclared war between Protestant England and Catholic Spain. Between 1585 and 1604, the two rivals clashed repeatedly. »
• « The resolutions also called for the formation of militias under the control of the Continental Congress. Loyalists and Patriots clashed in North Carolina in February 1776 at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. »