Example Sentences

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There are 176,000 service veterans in Scotland out of 2 million in the UK as a whole, many of whom will have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

We will have fought for nothing, because the country will represent itself, not Africa.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022

“I would say he’s probably the best fighter we will have fought to date,” Sanchez said.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2017

If we fall back, we will have fought here for two days and we will leave knowing that we did not drive them off, and if it was no defeat, surely it was no victory.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Dear Mistress Lucina,—When this you read an old soldier will have fought his last battle, and his heart, which has held you as kindly as a father's, will have ceased to beat.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins