Blade relaxed his unarmed combat stance but didn't sit down.
Oberon eased his feet apart into a good combat stance, ready for instant action.
A white man, in combat stance, was facing him, pointing a gun directly at him.
Only Blade was left in his combat stance by the door.
Edward was on the ground in a combat stance, gun out.
The gunman met them and crouched down, assuming "a combat stance," the official said.
In a combat stance, he hunkered behind a retaining wall of a house.
Ree settled into a combat stance ready to bring either of them down.
He threw his half-full glass at the leader, and took up a combat stance, ready to defend himself.
He was standing in combat stance one moment, a blur the next.