Attritional in a sentence

But delivery of those weapons is months away, leaving Kyiv to fight on through the winter in what both sides have described as a meat grinder of relentless attritional warfare.

Russia is trying to beef up its armed forces as the Ukraine war grows ever more attritional while incorporating fighters from the Wagner mercenary force.

The months-long struggle for Bakhmut has resulted in some of the bloodiest attritional fighting of Russia’s year-old invasion of Ukraine.

This is fundamentally the inverse of the Russia-Ukraine war—a classic industrial-era attritional war with pockets of 21st-century innovation, such as the creative use of drones.

The insurance company said this was highlighted by a robust performance from Santam, where effective management actions and lower attritional losses offset the impact of continued adverse weather-related claims.

The result was an attritional first half which brought zero shots on target and little to get excited about.

This was a hugely attritional match that featured seven tries and claimed the in-form Ngani Laumape, who injured his forearm attempting to tackle Joe Moody in the 48th minute and then left the field in a dejected mood after attempting to play on.

We have been in this attritional war for democracy for more than 20 years as a party and for longer as a people.

In a match which was becoming attritional, it was home side skipper Martin Munro who was on hand to level the score on the half hour mark.

It is encouraging that the Lloyd’s market is showing increased discipline in 2019 as evidenced by a reduction in gross written premiums and an improvement in the attritional loss ratio for the current underwriting year.

Christophe Urios's side struck an early blow through Tongan flank, and despite a fightback from European Champions Cup runners-up Racing, they battled to an attritional victory thanks to 14 points from the boot of Benjamin Urdapilleta.

Frame 12: O’Sullivan 7-4 Allen We are in a phase best described as ‘attritional’.

Overall though it was attritional; a good old-fashioned arm wrestle, in which both side’s defences put in immense shifts.

In a departure from their cautious attritional tactics of the previous days, the Germans formed two potent SS battlegroups and made a significant thrust along a narrow front in the eastern sector.

The Romans used the attritional strategy that Fabius had taught them, and which, they finally realized, was the only feasible means of defeating Hannibal.