tug of war
Example Sentences
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Tug-of-war: The bidding war for Sky, the European pay-TV service, heated up when Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox upped its ante and Comcast Corp. countered with an even higher offer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2018
But you must, mavourneen, you must if you join the Tug-of-war Society.
From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.
The Biograph people, who are still with us, took a scene of the Tug-of-war, our Oom Paul, and then a tableau of the hanging of Kruger!
From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)
The Tug-of-war Society would never again have anything to do with me.
From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.
I want to belong to the Tug-of-war because it's close to you I'll be, darling.
From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.
