Synonym: argument, brush, clash, conflict, encounter, engagement, melee, scuffle, struggle. Similar words: skirt, outskirt, outskirts, miniskirt, infirmity, surmise, near miss, permission. Meaning: ['skɜrmɪʃ /'skɜː-] 
n. a minor short-term fight. v. engage in a skirmish.
n. a minor short-term fight. v. engage in a skirmish. 
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31. This was a only petty , front - line skirmish.
32. Go out of the barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on.
33. The verbal skirmish is viewed as the opening round in negotiation schedules to start next Tuesday.
34. So a skirmish could escalate into a war of mutual survival.
35. But it will not be. They will drive them out of Georgia in one skirmish.
36. The North Korean ship was seriously damaged in the skirmish while the South Korean ship was unscathed, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said.
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37. She confessed that she had directed an attack, called in French a skirmish, before Paris.
38. You play like a lame camel. I am the skirmish master.
39. " There'll be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.
40. Guatemala was the first skirmish of the cold war in Latin America.
41. With Baidu assured of nothing from the government, and Google fading from view, Baidu is now fighting Alibaba and Tencent in a three-way skirmish to be China's preeminent Internet company.
42. Under regular circumstances these wouldn't be fouls but after a skirmish we wanted to regain control.
43. The skirmish is thought to be the first exchange of fire between a passenger vessel and attackers since the start of the current wave of piracy off the Horn of Africa.
44. Last November's election was a skirmish - hardly even a battle, still less a war.
45. The propensity for tuxedoed birds to enact something like a gay marriage has since provided a memorable skirmish in the culture wars.
46. For us it was a war...for them it was a border skirmish...the problem nowadays is that we constantly get high on the patriotic jingoism created by our beloved media that we barely realize our weaknesses.
47. We won a skirmish, and we'll win him some more.
48. A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames yesterday after a skirmish with a South Korean vessel – the first naval clash between the two nations in seven years.
49. When I got to the old Sullivan place there'd already been a skirmish with the Yankees.
50. Surviving Abyssins defeated in the skirmish are usually assimilated into the victorious tribe.
51. Not being used to such a collectivist set-up, Apple refused to pay up, which triggered the first big legal skirmish over smart-phones.