What is "skirmishings"

Usage examples of "skirmishings".

She launched into what promised to be a prolonged account of her skirmishings on behalf of the unbaptized Rachel.

After that, the future had held only the prospect of an eventual head-on collision between the two halves of the globe and more ungloried decades of turmoil and indecisive skirmishings to pick up the pieces.

For a moment he thought nostalgically and unreasonably of the excitement and turmoil of the hot war, compared with his own underground skirmishings since the war had turned cold.

In above thirty years soldiering, the number must be large, considering all the small wars and skirmishings against the mountainfolk.