A war in which small groups of soldiers not belonging to regular or established army units engage in fighting against typically larger regular forces.
they found themselves getting bogged down in a guerrilla war against rural rebels
mass noun two decades of guerrilla war
Example sentencesExamples
- In many senses, computer security already resembles a guerrilla war.
- Running in circles won't improve the economy, clean the environment, or affect the guerrilla wars in any way.
- These sacred writings speak of the general who waged a relentless guerrilla war.
- The initial phase of the conflict was primarily a guerrilla war, which resulted in a stalemate between the combatants.
- What they found themselves in was a guerrilla war.
- They continued to wage a guerrilla war against successive governments.
- Atrocities occurred on both sides in the guerrilla war.
- Wild tribes living north of Hadrian's Wall carried on a guerrilla war against the Romans.
- For years they waged guerrilla war against the royalist government.
- He plays a reporter who is trying to do a story about a guerrilla war in North Africa.