shindy

Example Sentences

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The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

How shall I make my poor Voice heard ’Midst this brute shindy, brainless, mad?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

Anderson is going to raise the old flag on Sumter, and of course there will be a great shindy here—I only wish you were with us to join in it.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

Then he struck at him, and there was a shindy.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)