How to Use "skirmish" with Example Sentences

1. The man above was killed in a skirmish in december 2010 for an unknown reason .
2. Snarling between the koreas , meanwhile , seems a more urgent global skirmish than any between the g2 .
3. Our skirmish went on for 20 minutes ; finally an infantry platoon came up behind us and chased the north koreans into the valley .
4. A c. o. in the guard tower takes notice and fires warning shots into the yard around michael and abruzzi , ending the skirmish .
5. The shipment to hizbullah of a balance-tipping new weapon , a skirmish on the lebanese or increasingly volatile gaza border-any number of miscalculations could ignite a conflagration .